On Red Mage melee...

[Carth]

As a RDM who doesn't whore himself to /NIN wherever he goes, a native fencer trait is welcomed.

[Duelle]

As a RDM who doesn't whore himself to /NIN wherever he goes, a native fencer trait is welcomed.

/DNC has its uses. Also, doesn't /WAR and /BLU lose in overall DPS versus Dual Wield?

[Greatguardian]

/DNC has its uses. Also, doesn't /WAR and /BLU lose in overall DPS versus Dual Wield?

They do, by a landslide. Why would using Nin sub be considered "Whoring"? It's far and away the strongest melee sub RDM has.

[Carth]

They do, by a landslide. Why would using Nin sub be considered "Whoring"? It's far and away the strongest melee sub RDM has.

Because sometimes, I'm not just there to be a DD.

I duo -very- frequently with my best friend who is a SAM as well as a BLU. He is very much a glass cannon on SAM, while at the same time he tries to do as much damage as possible on his BLU. In these circumstances, I am the healer, tank, and DD, and after various experimentation with /NIN I learned there are many benefits from other subjobs when the situation calls for it. My go-to subjob is actually /PLD due to Shield Mastery (pre-update), Auto-Refresh, and the very strong hate tools. Sentinel has also saved my tushie many times. I go /BLU for supertank methods. /WAR and /DRK are used when the plan is to zerg a mob down and I have a very strong Sanguine Blade build for that. Did I mention Sanguine Blade is -fucking awesome- for tanking?

My /NIN build also isn't all that strong, admittedly. I'm still working on getting Khanda and Almace, and I don't have Death Blossom yet. If I did I probably would be using /NIN more. It's mainly the lack of Death Blossom that keeps me away from it.