Quote Originally Posted by Mirage View Post
and if they do get a melee boost that will let them melee and backup-heal or whatever other backup duties they could do, while still lettign the party get the same exp/hour as if he was on heal/support duty only, we're going to get a lot of mad melees who want their jobs to be able to solo lv95 NMs.
I'd feel no pity for anyone who feels that way. I have two other melee jobs at high level, and while the change in play is notable between, say, my DRK and my RDM, I also acknowledge there's a difference in how the classes are designed.

Something I was kicking around that no one seemed to like was the idea of splitting what a RDM could do in the front and in the back. Say, heal and buff while in the back, melee and enfeeble while in the front. I've never been in favor of just having melee mixed with heals/refresh/haste because that creates redundancy while at the same time causing us to lose potential melee time due to casting cycles. It's certainly doable, but not fun and casting-intensive.