RDM's support role

[saevel]

sometime i feel like SE view on rdm is "whelp, it was overpowered for years so... now it will be worthless for years! " :/ but honestly, if we are supposed to be focused on single target buffs, fine. BUT let us single target OTHER people x.x its like we are built to only play by ourselves now, and kill mobs ourselves... very... slowly... i don't care if we don't get cure V, i'm just pissed that SE said rdms will be changed more into the master of debuffs and single target buffs. so they give us 2 more debuffs, one of which they give to whm as well, the other can't land on most worthwhile mobs like every other enfeeb (which makes no sense, if we can only land debuffs on weak mobs then we don't NEED to debuff those mobs). and their answer to our buffing mastery, give us new buffs that we can only use on ourselves, and give whm the same buffs that they can AoE... essentially giving us dumbed down leftovers...

bah, ok /rageoff. just getting frustrated that my favorite job for 7+ years is now the most looked down on job out there x.x

Spoken as someone on the receiving end. You do ~not~ want this. Single target "other" people turns our days into this

Haste
Buff 1
Buff 2
Haste
Buff 1
Buff 2
Haste
Buff 1
Buff 2
Haste

And you keep doing it until the sun explodes or you become mentally exhausted.

I can't imagine anyone who's ever done cycles would ever want that again. It was the single greatest issue with RDM, the the most hated and what drove the majority of career RDM's to find other jobs. We don't mind supporting other party members, we're team players and all. It's the way SE implements it that makes it a disaster in the waiting. If we're going to buff players then it NEEDS to be aoe or effect a large group simultaneously.

It took us the better part of seven years to get away from buff cycles, and only through SE's utter incompetence. Under no circumstance do you want to be the RDM responsible for dispensing those "buffs", its one of the absolute worst things you can do to someone. The only thing worse is to force a SMN/WHM to main heal with Cure III.