Quote Originally Posted by saevel View Post
But I have to disagree with the whole "Party Invitations" thing, we don't do PT invites anymore because we don't have XP parties. Abyssea stuff is based entirely off procing skills, RDM could have "Cure VII" and WHM would still be picked over RDM due to them having the light procs. And everything after this is either lowman "friend" stuff, or big shell stuff. We really gotta get out of the pre abyssea "6 man XP Invites" mentality. Abysea XP groups now have 2~4 people afking and some lv 40 guy opening chests, alliance leaders /sh for invites for awhile before filling up, their not being picky about who joins. The only real job discrimination happens with abyssea proc's, which is outside the scope of this discussion.
Abyssea may have changed expectations, but our job as a whole is still being judged based on the stuff established by the 6-man party set ups. That's why I've tended to think that if you're going to buff or rebalance RDM, it has to be with the 6-man party in mind, then branch out into what Abyssea and alliances would allow the job to do.

You can't pretend that 6-man party balance doesn't matter when the perception of our job created by those damn parties are what are causing all these outsiders to come into our threads and tell us we don't deserve melee buffs or how melee buffs are a waste of time and how we should be getting back to being their buff b*tches, made worse by those inside our job who most likely rode the Refresh gravy train to 75 and merits before the level cap was raised. I for one am sick of our job being treated the way it is.