and what else were you expected to do in dynamis while you were healing. Oh yes thats right sleeping mobs, silencing pets, silencing mobs, slowing mobs, paralyzing mobs, diaing mobs, and giving haste and/or refresh out. Then you healed, because if dynamis was being done right the only ones taking damage were the tanks. Which your WHM's were taking care of.

WHM's have always been the primary healers
BLM's have always been the primary nukers
WAR's have always been the primary melee
RDM had always been the primary support mage.

In every event it was enfeeble and buff first. That was the job, and why it was invited. What came after was what was deemed important, and that secondary task covered healing, nuking and melee.

I know you love hand outs, but RDM doesn't need secondary skills changed, it needs its main skills back. That is the only reason RDM was ever useful in endgame, if RDM couldn't bring better enfeebles and stackable buffs it wouldn't have had a spot, and that is the fucking cold hard truth.

Support first, everything else second, that is the job, and SE is restricting our support abilities heavily, for no apparent reason.

Which brings us back to the OP.

What is the deal SE?, What are your plans with RDM? Are we going to be a Support Mage? or are we destined to be mediocre in everything and wander RoZ/CoP till the end of time soloing irrelevant content?