Quote Originally Posted by Solonuke View Post
When it comes to meleeing during endgame, I think the biggest problem is not that your damage isn't worth it but the fact that 90% of the monsters in this game screams "don't tp this!". After meleeing quite a few Isgebinds with my LS I thought meleeing didn't seem bad. You won't be taking much damage from AoEs as RDMs gets access to stoneskin, shell and magic defense bonus traits. When it comes to resisting enfeebles, it helps out capping the magic skill while using enspells that reduces the monster's resistance to a specific element and use death blossom for reduced magic evasion. Capping enhancing now helps out on temper and gain-spells which helps out while meleeing.

RDM melee is probably the most discussed thing about this game and the discussion has been going on ever since the game was released. 9 years of whether or not a RDM should use its sword or not somehow sounds really funny to me.
Not arguing but we've already found out that the "TP Feed" argument is no longer valid on big NM class monsters. Turns out that after seeing a bunch of DNC and MNK's running around soloing things SE just said "screw it" and gave all the new NM's the ability to do a special move without TP. That or they have 40+ TP/tick regain. There was a time when we kited Kaggan around for a few min and with nobody hitting him and no damage being done he was spamming TP moves (jumping mostly as I never stayed in range, but occasionally the aoe mucus move). SE really has thrown out all semblance of balance on NMs and just plain cheats now.