Quote Originally Posted by ManaKing View Post
Yes we still need updates, but we also need people to actually play RDM like they are serious about playing it. You can get into VWs as 2-4 + enfeebles if people need another BLM. I wouldn't suggest you go as a WHM replacement, but I hate healing anyways. You can even Melee some of the things so long as your TP and WSs don't look as crappy as 90% of all RDMs are. You can't half ass this job and expect good things. That's not how it works.
The problem is that even the serious RDMs, as I used to be, got sick of a job that was being left behind. Congrats on landing Blind on Pil... but the issue isn't the accuracy of our spells on mobs it can land on... its that the monster is either immune to the spell, or the spell carries negligible, if any effect.

Spending 2 years as a Hastebot for ToAU parties didn't help either, and having been overlooked on both Enhancing and Enfeebling spells (which we were championing through our prime years) further distanced players from the job.

What many people chose not to see, is that having a "well geared RDM" was the argument in 2005/2006 against letting a RDM do things outside of the typecasted role. This is 2012, going on 2013, and the job is not being played in anything other than solo (or tight-knit lowman groups) because the job has nothing to contribute to the game.

This is the cold honest truth about it, and anyone who thinks otherwise truly is living in the past.