Quote Originally Posted by Karbuncle View Post
I simply don't see a point in making the SAM(DD) You're "battling" against in the parse purposefully gimp.

Would it not be a hollow victory to beat a SAM that for all intents and purposes was gimp? I sorta understand no AV items, sorta. but forcing him to use a Great Katana over a Polearm? That is grade-A Gimp. Any good SAM would use Polearm on Colibri.

ANY good SAM. its basic Colibri intelligence.

I just don't see the point of this if its not going to be Best vs best. Wheres the victory in beating someone you've forced into dumbing down their armor? It seems like it'd be a hollow victory because the only thing you'd prove is that you could almost out-DD a SAM so long as the SAM was using a bad weapon choice and selective gear.
Right, though there's problems with statments like that as not all camps in ToAU were lolibri. Hagun sam was likely the Mamool JA camp issue. I donno, I'm not Starfox.

But when you mention 'Best vs best', what is the best for RDM? Who has 'the best'? I don't think anyone's actually collected the full potential. There is certainly gear out there for a RDM to work for. However, I think the biggest argument on the pro melee camp to SE is, if they're going to do that, they should also provide a meaningful use for it.

Excalibur, Mandau, Almace, these things aren't easy to get, yet they dangle them in front of Red Mages.

And the dangeling is not limited to just Relics either.