Eh, I think folks are getting a little too bent out of shape over this. People are acting like they were truly expecting SE to hold out on their promises after all these years when they damn well knew better. Besides Temper isn't exactly news, SE said over a year ago they had made plans to increase viability in the front lines, for all we know this spells been in the works well before the job manifesto was released and they were just waiting for this level cap to implement it. Will it increase our abilities to the point where we can melee regularly, doubtful. Will it give RDM back it's niche in a party setting, no. Will this be the last update RDM ever receives for anything, definitely not.

I would just cool your jet's, wait for the game to move out of that n00b hole called Abyssea, then all of you can go back to your previous life like the ToAU days. If Temper doesn't offer anything to RDM then it's essentially unchanged, just ignore it like RDM got absolutely nothing at all. Really everyone would have been like "Big Surprise..." if RDM didn't get anything anyways, but they're sounding like their dreams stomped on because of a melee buff that "wouldn't change anything" or they "would never use".

On a side note however, I am finding it very ironic that people are so driven to put down the original RDM archtype, but take the new one given in the manifesto so seriously when SE even stated at the bottom that these ideas were not set in stone.