On Red Mage melee...

[Rayik]

Moving to ad hominem attacks are we? Well that's hilarious since you had a much more hostile reply than I had for you. I'm not missing any points here, you're simply wrong. RDM has no place on the frontline, because bu your logic every single job should be meleeing because they have melee capabilities. By having a RDM on the frontline you subject them to debuffs/easily killed unless they have: PDT/MDT sets, are you willing to put the money out for those sets? Or do you expect your healer(hint, YOU have cure4) to just cure you so you can continue to melee? If i was in your party, and I was on whm I would let you die, and just ignore your crying because i let a DD die. You are aware that some mobs have TP moves that will one shot you, but not the other DDs, congratulations, you are now dead and people have to waste MP/time away from the fight to raise you, OR they wait until the fight is over, in which case you contributed nothing, maybe 1-2k dmg, but nothing that would have changed the course of the fight. You are also forgetting that some mobs have silence auras, making it stupid for you to melee because you constantly have to run in/out of range meaning you lose dmg.


Come to Odin and parse wish and I, prove your rdm is "good" otherwise don't talk. I'll fill you in as to why i think all RDM suck, because most of them DO SUCK. People full timing mage gear for melee, not gearswapping, not curing or hasting anyone but themselves, not debuffing, you know, the normal things a melee rdm does

Edit: Nice R u a wizrd attack, and to reply, yes I am a wizrd i studied at Hogwarts, you jelly?

Ok pal, I'm not the one screaming "stop playing with crap DD! Stop meleeing! U SUCK!" every other post. Your arguments are baseless. You have no idea how I play, and no idea whom I play with. And a parse? Seriously? You haven't read a single word I said. Why would I parse against a DD when I've said, multiple times, RDM melee doesn't compare with a dedicated DD. Wow man, you're not even trying.

But yeah, every job should be in he front line when they have:

Capped weapon skill over 335(before gear and merits)
Access to haste-capping gear
Access to at least a critical WS like Evisceration
Just my opinion, take it with a grain of salt.

Even if I'm meleeing in a party, I'm keeping buffs up and helping cure. Hell, I've main-healed parties and helped melee in trash xp parties, no problem; all DD's Hasted and mages Refreshed. Maybe all the RDM's you played with didn't do that. Sucks for you and they suck for not contributing to the party.

Trash players who don't help the party or gear swap are not RDM specific; they are just trash players.