du-du-du-duh~ Everyone fear, Scuro is here! Misconceptions and skewed view of a job he has at lvl 47 is his specialty, cause he obviously knows how to play it better than a lvl 95 career rdm!

Must we go over this again, you're labeling a class based off the gear available to it. Same thing can be said about blu due to the gear they have available including the buffs and nukes which also has gear tailored to this form of play in the form of AF3. Heck, in some situations a blu nuke is far superior to that of a rdm nuke, we also have cures equal to Cure V and Curaga IV~V, the only draw back being the hate generated...oh wait...rdm has that same problem. Blu has buffs that can in some cases only be transferred over to others by use of a JA....oh wait, rdm has that same problem. About the only thing that seperates blu from rdm difinitively is the Physical damage spells, higher sword skill, and access to certain ws natively. Then again the WS difference becomes negligible if both have Almace. Gear has been added that brings rdm haste and WS sets up some this time also, leaving the only gap primarily present is the Attack and ~+10-20 dex difference depending on the layout of the blu's spell set. So the comparison isn't so much Apples to oranges, as it is Lemon to Lime.

Then you consider the fact Rdm has access to gear that can also increase Crit Dmg (Onerios Knife), which if I recall was found to be 5~10% increase, new da% on a slot they can afford to leave in place over other options (neck slot). New swords? Rdm are on those too. There is a variety of gear set combinations becoming available to rdm as of late that also increases the main attribute for CDC. So, unless you are willing to put the time and effort into leveling rdm, getting a gear set and ws set situated as well as use tools available to rdm in spell form to further enhance melee damage on rdm....you really have no right to come into the forums, crown or not, and state what a rdm can and cannot do. You have no first hand experience, you're wholly biased in opinion, and the roles you state rdm fits perfectly you fail to see that blu fits them also. Do everyone a favor and come back when you actually can apply a firmly weighted and unbiased knowledge to a discussion.

Also, blu gets -nothing- natively in the form of passive traits. All traits are subject to Subjob, merits, or the combination of spells, some of which are absolutely useless in practice and require sacrificing something else in order to gain (wow, that sounds similar to what rdm has to do to get passive traits they don't have natively, doesn't it?). All of the traits blu is capable of attaining is "gimped" compared to the real passive traits. SE even stated that, despite general acceptance, the Double attack trait blu is able to create is 7% compared to War's 10% native passive trait.