Inquiry to the Devs

[Devrom]

Someone's stuck in 2005, it'd seem.

eh? so you want to melee voidwatch, new bcnms and possibly ks99s (unless you do it with so many people that it wouldnt matter) on rdm and expect that your group will be ok with it? it doesn't have anything to do with being stuck in 2005 or whatever. also, playing the way i mentioned is more like 2003-2010 lol. even thieves were told not to melee at all since the damage wasnt making up for the TP feed unless the pt had more than enough healing etc. to begin with, i didn't even say you shouldnt melee pre cap increase stuff at all so please no "stuck in XXXX" comments... now that you can melee fafnir or whatever in low men fights doesn't mean you should be DDing whenever you feel like in new end game outside abyssea.

[Seriha]

eh? so you want to melee voidwatch, new bcnms and possibly ks99s (unless you do it with so many people that it wouldnt matter) on rdm and expect that your group will be ok with it? it doesn't have anything to do with being stuck in 2005 or whatever. also, playing the way i mentioned is more like 2003-2010 lol. even thieves were told not to melee at all since the damage wasnt making up for the TP feed unless the pt had more than enough healing etc. to begin with, i didn't even say you shouldnt melee pre cap increase stuff at all so please no "stuck in XXXX" comments... now that you can melee fafnir or whatever in low men fights doesn't mean you should be DDing whenever you feel like in new end game outside abyssea.

We'd like the option to if prepared, not the door automatically slammed in our face due to game mechanics and sustained ignorance of RDM's martial aspects over the years by the devs. The whole "Shut up and stay in the back!" spiel is exactly the mentality I attacked as it's an arrogant pigeon-holing of the job showing no respect toward its theme and concept. You even went so far as to throwing in the "peace offering" of meleeing old stuff a lot of people probably don't care about anymore like we'd be fighting Fafnirs or doing KS99s every day for hours on end. No, we'd actually like the option to be more than blue moon situational and NOT just a solo toy.

As of now, there's little reason to be a RDM. Stepping out of Abyssea isn't going to change that. Melee is only one aspect of RDM's woes, but simply, it is currently its most inadequate and has been for quite some time.