RDM's support role

[saevel]

What it really boils down to is SE deliberately locked out the level 40 abilities of /WHM, /NIN and limited accession of /SCH while allowing anyone to get everything from /RDM at full power. Come 99, nearly everything from RDM will be accessible to every other job as /RDM. SE has done an incredibly poor job of adding anything to RDM since 2005. The best we've got is Dia III, then Refresh II, otherwise everyone else either gets better or the same.

[Shadax]

Not to mention Abyssea has marginalized RDM even further, considering Refresh is rendered virtually obsolete by the proper atmas. Also, it used to be that RDM was the best solo/farming job because it offered no down time, but now I can farm faster on my BST than I can on RDM with the powerful new pets, huge boosts to biscuits, dawn mulsum and all the enhancements from FoV/GoV in most farming areas.

There should be a job trait at say level 50 that allows RDM's to cast self-targeting-only enhancement spells on party members. I think Saboteur should be a job trait as well. It's kind of ridiculous that BLM's and WHM's get job traits that grant constant fast cast on certain spells on top of any other fast cast they get from /RDM. An ability that grants a bonus to one enfeebling spell every five minutes when that's the RDM's most important role in the party, is not very fair in my opinion.