On Red Mage melee...

[Trangnai]

The issue with rdm melee is simple, the jobs frontline and backline skills are unbalanced.

- We lack High damage Weapon Skills more so on the sword side, the weapon which we have more access to.

- We lack the Light DD gear which all other non-2handed jobs are accustom to.

- We lack something to make our job unique on the frontlines, to make it more wanted, and increase damage output.

First off, if blu can have access to both Melee and Mage gear, why can't rdm? Our Melee gear choices are low I think and our skill will be more reflected in our gear then anything else, While a melee role is possible I believe that the playerbase isnt seeing it due to lack of gear/Abilities/Traits that "melee" jobs get. But yet, we get all sorts of Mage Abilities, Traits and Gear. We are suspoed to be a "Jack of ALL trades" not a jack of one trade, its upsetting that blu outshines rdm in the aspect of what a jack of all trades should be. Blu and rdm should play Similar Roles, but preform it in different ways.

[wildsprite]

Blu and rdm should play Similar Roles, but preform it in different ways.

I totally agree, its almost like RDM is SE's redheaded stepchild that they hate

[RaenRyong]

- We lack High damage Weapon Skills more so on the sword side, the weapon which we have more access to.

Minor thing here; Chant du Cygne is very powerful even on RDM but obviously that's not something most people will have.

[Trangnai]

Minor thing here; Chant du Cygne is very powerful even on RDM but obviously that's not something most people will have.

Yes, but a job that should be able to melee shouldn't need an Empyrean Weapon to be allowed to consider doing it. post 75 and even before that, we have more swords available then daggers. We should have the skills to utilize those weapons natively, and not require a very time consuming weapon to be completed to do so, this is anything but a minor issue as lack of these things have been an issue with rdm for years. It's been mentioned several times that CDC should be a boost to a jobs ability, not what makes it.