What will become of Red Mage v1.0?

[OmnysValefor]

That's where you're just not getting it.

1handers, by and large, don't get gear to "flush out" both sides for fast kills. I don't mean zerging, I simply mean killing as fast as possible. I don't know how Phoenix handles things but I was never in a VW with more than 1 pup, dnc, bst, thf, pld, rdm. It was not impossible to see 2 nin.

- DNC can dd, provide a unique set of party buffs, and heal in a clutch for a short duration (unless Tranced). Because of this, for whatever reason, dnc is kept far inferior to 2hr's.
- BST has the protection and assistance of their pets. This gives them more survivability than most melee. Because of this, for whatever reason, bst is kept far inferior to 2hr's.
- NIN has excellent survivability, accomodates many subs, excellent tank, because of this, nin is kept far inferior to 2hr's.
- PLD, with the proper shield for the situation, has nearly unmatchable survivability, and is *the* tank--because of this, pld is kept far inferior to 2hr's.
- BLU's spells don't rise with weapon damage, thus their spells remain sort of stagnant, because of this, BLU is kept far inferior to 2hr's..
THF has Treasure Hunter, if you want a drop, you sacrifice a spot to a thf, because of this--even though it isn't so applicable to many aspects of the game anymore--thf is kept far inferior to 2hr's.

And these are each jobs with two aspects, and really bst is just a DD that sucks at anything hard. Your pet goes down quickly if you're not willing to dump food after food into him and that's so he can miss, while you miss because, not only are bst's skills behind war, for instance, bst's offensive abilities are none, they can't sub a DD sub because they need to be dual wielding, and the gear options aren't there to make pets hit these mobs, and that's before adoulin.

If I could remember them, I could count the number of times, on all my fingers that we had a bst or pup in the alliance. RDM was very rare and aside from pil, or something with adds, pld was a last-resort option as well.

The only one hander you'd see more than one of is blue and that's because of poor design.

Finally, 1hr's are looking at the weapon options and some of them need to offhand their pre-adoulin weapon. Some have the option of dual-wielding a weapon of a different type, but your ws's don't get the extra hit in that case--because of this, 1hr's are...

And

it needs a boost in this one field to fulfill its job requirements.

Nobody is requiring rdm to melee.