Quote Originally Posted by Rayik View Post
Hey genius, I think part of the point of this thread is exactly that the game doesn't support RDM melee in it's current state, even though the job is implied as melee-capable. You jumping in here screaming at us about RDM sucking at melee is just stating the obvious.
Hey genius, any job is melee capable, dont give rdm the exclusive "we have swords it means we can melee!!!" whms have clubs and can hexa strike, sch smn have staff skill does that mean they should be QQing about meleeing(ok maybe some people like lolDallas QQ about smn but he's easily ignored). I came in "screaming"(even though i came in with a cool calm level headed tone and was replied with screams of anger, disgust and fury because i stated an opinion that people did not like) because I don't want SE reading this and thinking "OH THEY WANT MELEE RDM TO BE BETTER?!" and give RDM some stupid melee ability so that everyone who loves meleeing on rdm could go "HA I TOLD YOU SO NOOB". RDM should be enfeebling/curing/hasting/etc, NOT meleeing.

I am an absolute RDM melee enthusiast, and I'll be the first to admit RDM sucks ass compared to any true DD. The (very) few times as a RDM I have been "allowed" to melee in a party situation, I contributed to overall damage the same way I did with my spells; strong support, but never outdoing the specialists. A RDM will never out-damage a DD(or out-cure a WHM, out-nuke a BLM, etc)). But, a true DD will never be tossing Cure IV's, enfeebling spells, Hasting, Refreshing, etc, in addition to melee output. ANY damage a RDM does in combat is more damage then it was doing standing in the backline.
You probably contributed so much because the others you were playing with were crap or dead. This has been stressed a hundred times or more, stop comparing yourself to CRAP DD...seriously, go find some well geared, smart players with DD, they will crush you and your dmg contribution will be not even noticeable so stop saying you contribute so much, you contribute more with your spells/enfeebs than you do meleeing and wasting everyone's time.


The only reason I can see not letting a RDM melee in today's FFXI is to cut down on feeding the mob TP.
Because their dmg is crap on anything that isnt EP/DC, they contribute more being on the backline.