To the devs!

[ManaKing]

We're finally agreeing on something, progress. Rdm is not a pure buff job, and does not, and should not, function like one.

Yeah but that is all RDM is viewed as. We have no real value except to refresh and haste in a party.

Curing isn't even an issue because of how much better a WHM can service an alliance and a BLU can service a single party. We are behind on curing. We will never catch up unless the next curing change affects us very favorably. So the best we are doing as a support is Haste, Refresh, Cure.

We need more, but we don't need to neglect what we already have. I have no problem with curing others, hasting others, or refreshing others. I just don't want that to be all I'm good for every time things get real. It gets boring fast and there is plenty of time to do other things while i sit around.

When you compare the solo experience to the party experience, RDM is disastrously bad with other people. All of it's value gets cut down because it doesn't stack well(enspells/sambas or gain/boost). We need buffs to our functionality to a full alliance (please don't read this as we need AoE buffs, that isn't what I'm saying.) Things need to stack better for us and we need our enfeebling back to throw into the mix.

On melee, It really is go Almace or go home. There is no middle ground, which I guess is ok, but it won't be if they don't keep RDM's gear up to date. They have done a decent job recently(thanks Brego Helm, Rubeus Spats, and Ephemeron), but they still haven't given us an acceptable TP body. The only one that is even close to acceptable is crimson/blood scale mail augmented to +3% haste, get the accuracy for the secondary buff, and get some decent random augments like more acc or atk. I'm not going to pretend that is a reasonable amount of work. You have to get lucky on either Odin or the HQ drop of the Adamantoise....Neither are good drop rates. Good luck on all that random luck.

Please fix our job. It's broken and WE can't do anything about that.