To the devs!

[Ketaru]

And now we have it, your trying to insinuate RDM's got some sort of buff via CDC and call it a day. IDK where you've been living lately, if your here honestly trying to have a discussion or just trolling the RDM forums for lols.

How does anything I say suggest that we got CDC and we can leave it at that? I said quit with the undermining of the fact we got it as though it was just the run off of PLD and BLU. You're not entitled to it just because PLD and BLU did. One would think you of all people would get that, since you yourself are the one that said it could've just as easily have been Rudra's Storm instead.

I'm only pointing out SE does a good job of mixing things up for no apparent reason. I love my Almace and CDC, but it doesn't fit the job as well as other options would have. We have naturally weak Attack ratings so we are never going to get the most out of CDC. There seems to be no real logical sense to how they adjust jobs and design WSs, because it's certainly not based off which jobs need it the most. Just look at Cloudsplitter since you brought it up. It doesn't make any sense to be on BST or WAR. I mean, maybe DRK, but that isn't going to make anyone happy.

I'd rather have a WS that is good before a WS that just fits your image of the job. Gearing for CDC is incredibly simple. Gearing for Cloudsplitter is impossible. Cloudsplitter is not a good WS or even a decent one. Period.

Every other job has gotten multiple buffs and modifications. RDM was given tier ups and a nifty 10m JA.

And Gain-Attribute spells. And a new type of debuff. And a job ability that enhances debuffs. And Temper. They may not all be particular useful for the current endgame (even though Voidwatch is now kind of a joke with frequent procs). But don't conveniently neglect to mention them just because they don't suit your argument.

Make a comparison. BLM mostly got "tier ups and a nifty 10m JA" as well, but they are clearly experiencing a surge in popularity. For no other reason than weakness procs. So let us all agree that RDM mostly fails to meet a particular need right now. But that has nothing to do with a lack of updates and everything to do with the developers' irrational fear that being able to land enfeebles will be overpowered. And even if they do land, they don't do crap to new NMs. On a mob like Gaunab, Paralyze II is more useful for it's ability to trigger a weakness than it's intended of effect of actually paralyzing.

And, like whores, many of us (myself included), probably merited Bio III and Blind II because they "might" be the Dark Black Magic that triggers weakness. Not because of any actual desire to have these spells.

BST solos pretty much anything that can be solo'd.

Beliefs like that are why the job will never get anything that will make them wanted in groups. Only more stuff that will make people hate BSTs.