On Red Mage melee...

[saevel]

ALL Kindred are high defense / VIT mobs with natural MDT. And I was referring to the old Mystery Tour monster database, they had been able to determine the monsters template and figure out it's def / evasion / AGI / VIT / INT. Monsters of the same template scaled the same way. Its no longer online now and I wonder what happened to all of it's data.

The whole point of that is that a Kindred monster at level 90 will have higher defense / VIT then a Goblin, Dhamel, Pugil, or Bird at level 90. The only monsters that I can remember with higher DEF / VIT were crabs and Urganites. The "job" stats are applied after the template, so a Kindred WHM would most likely have more defense then a Goblin WAR of the same level. Colibri for example where template bird, job RDM with access to all White / Black magic and songs flagged and possessing a natural -12.5 MDT. So yes that particular target was worse case scenario, as had you been fighting Level 95 tree's, goblins, Orcs, Yags or Pugils then the attack penalty would of been less.

And BTW I never once mentioned Abyssea, you are the ones who brought that up as a red herring. His average on CDC was 600, that is very low for that kind of WS. At 75 in Xarc vs Kindreds I was able to get 400~600 (depending on buffs and food) with Death Blossom, and this is without using Dia III. He should of been hitting 800 at least, but due to his ratio being under 1.0 it got severely whacked.

But yes I picked up early that this was just an attempt by certain BG elements to deride RDM's as "mage onry" and provide an attempt to say "RDM can't even do half the damage of a real DD" and "an AH gimp melee is still better then a RDM". It was a setup pure and simple. They weren't even in there to actually accomplish anything, not coins collection, not NM pops, not AF acquisition and not XP. The whole purpose was to "prove RDM wrong". The proof was in the simple statement that the parse was stopped when someone died, of all the melee capable jobs RDM has the highest survivability and the game doesn't stop if a melee gets themselves killed. That's disregarding one of RDM's biggest strengths, it's sheer survivability. Avoiding death is part of a playing a job and part of being a DD.

Looking over your accuracy data, the blind effect did absolute jack sh!t to your accuracy. The RDM, who most likely had the lowest accuracy of the group, is eating attack food and not Pizza and still hitting 90%.

But please don't let me stop your celebration, after all it's not like no one else has attempted this technique before to "win the RDM war".