Quote Originally Posted by CapriciousOne View Post
A- freaking-MEN bro, I couldn't have said it better myself and has always been my issue. I dont like main healing myself and will refuse invites if one even ask me to. Even further if I am in the party already and ask me to do so I will leave it. Sure I can fulfill the role but the fact of the matter is whm is designed to fulfill that role BY DESIGN. I and i'm sure many other RDM would have no problem lending the WHM their support but expecting to do it all just is ass backwards to me when another job is more qualified. It is more about ego and wanting thier favorite job to be better than everybody elses for most people. I just ask for stuff that make my solo game more manageable myself. I dont need to be better than everybody else I just like not being dependent on others to get crap done and is why I chose RDM in the first place. Sometimes I think people lose sight of that with this job. You're not meant to be the best at everything just sufficient enough to get shit done by leveraging ALL of your skills not MELEE only or MAGIC only, but BOTH. Anything more than that to me is just greedy and is a display of complete incompetence at the job and the game.
While I support you in theory, one of the previous posters has already demonstrated that a RDM with Cure V wouldn't be very far behind WHM in cure power. Blame it on SE's rotten scaling of Healing Magic Skill as it effects Cures. In real use people would just see "Cure V" and immediately throw the RDM into a main healing spot. They've been doing that since 2004, it's not gonna change all of a sudden. Doing this would immediately end any and all enhancements SE would do to RDM. Cause no matter what, for all eternity people would just see RDM has a healer -1. Not the best but "good enough", and that's all people care about. Heck I've seen many alliances try to main heal with RDM's right now, doesn't work very well, and you get one tired RDM, but they thing Cure = main healer.

I don't mind supporting a WHM and taking on part of the healing load, and Cure V would make that tons easier. But I would get to "support" for about two weeks until people noticed that you can just do WHM + RDM/WHM x 2 in an 18 main alliance instead of WHM x 3. Of course the WHM would take care of the two tanks, but the RDM's would be forced to babysit the melee's or if he's lucky the BLMs.