RDM Balance ...

[saevel]

@ Saevel - Giving us just the WS's wouldnt change a thing w/o giving us better skill rating. DRK has all the WS's yet unless its for a souleater spam with a multihit weapon (ridill usually) would never be allowed to use sword in a normal party. You can argue its because they have better options but really what makes them better options, the skill rating. To truly prove this why is it for endgame events you would never see DRK use AXE or GA, while War who does use those don't use GS or Scythe, again its cause skill level plays that much of a role in it.

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Wrong, we're exactly 19 skill behind BLU, which turns out to be 19 accuracy and 19 attack, 9.5% hit rate. Skill rate means absolutely nothing now.

And to prove this, on WAR with swords (exact same rank as RDM) I whip out 3K+ vorpals in Abyssea and 1~2K Vorpals outside. As a DRK (less then WAR / RDM) I can do the same, unless I have SE up then it's ridiculously high, but that's just BNS.

Ignore skill, it's useless nowadays. 76+ everyone go the exact same rate of increase's, A+ got the same as A- got the same as B and B-.

Also DRK's don't use Axe/Sword because Desperate Blows doesn't work with 1H weapons and /SAM exists. DB is +25% Haste whenever LR is up, which is now a 3min duration with the same recast options that Berserk has. DRK got stuck in a bad position for Abyssea, inside they ~COULD~ use Vorpal / Rampage but they'd lose out on DB buff. Outside their Scyth does a much better job due to no crazy +crit atma's being present. I could go into some pretty detailed math on this, but would be better to redirect you to the DRK forums on Alla for it.

In short, PLD, the highest ranked sword user does less damage then my WAR's sword, not because of skill or gear but because they lack offensive JA / JT. As RDM's we fit in the same category, our only offensive melee JA is Composure for +15 accuracy, JT is non-existent. This actually brings us to 4 acc (2%) behind BLU, but then both can get Acc Bonus depending.