Controversy and bad ideas = hot topic. Post a good idea about RDM and 3 people will stop by and say "Hey that's a pretty good idea"

I wasn't basing what I said on the posts on this forum. I hardly even read the RDM melee thread because it's so terrible. I'm basing it on my belief that at least 9/10 people who wanted a melee job leveled a melee job instead of RDM. RDM was actually the first job I leveled into the 40s and by level 30 I had realized how terrible it was at melee and I wasn't like "WTF I NEED MORE MELEE POWER NOW!" I said "Hmm I guess this isn't really what I'm supposed to do on this job." Since I haven't played with more than 10 RDMs who even suggested that they were thinking about DDing in my many years of playing this game I can say pretty confidently that the majority of RDMs accept the role of a back line mage.

And yes you are right I can't guarantee that this wouldn't have been what SE did even without the melee RDM threads. I said that in my own post but I definitely think they should have spent their time and money on something else and would probably have been more likely to do that if there wasn't