RDM Balance ...

[Ophannus]

Curing on RDM is becoming almost as worthless as meleeing. By asking a RDM to spam Cure IV, you might as well be asking the BRD/WHM or SMN/WHM to be Curing, as RDM has no distinct advantage over those jobs at Curing. The only reasons why the RDM will be asked to Cure over the BRD or SMN despite having the same tier of Cure is because RDM isn't much better at any other task currently and therefore has nothing else to do except reapply debuffs(if applicable) and Haste a melee or two. In the half dozen LS I've been in, having a RDM in mage parties for Refresh II has never been an explicit priority as MP regeneration has now become something that mages take into their own hands now with /RDM and /SCH such that Refresh II is an utter novelty, much like how melees all now sub NIN or SAM for some kind of shadows and nobody cycles SMNs for Earthen Ward/Aerial Armor like in 2003.