To the devs!

[ManaKing]

Getting invited to groups should be our first priority as a job, and until RDM has something it can say it is clearly better than other jobs at, this won't happen. There is only one solution that won't cause people to freak out, and that is a support mage increase, and this is only true because all of our abilities stack with other support jobs.

Agreed, BUT you are still assuming they will make Enfeebling/Enhancing worth while to a party, much less make RDM actually proficient at using it. Because Enfeebling/Enhancing is in a poor state, RDM stuffers because that was part of their identity. Enfeebling/Enhancing not being equally worth a party spot as Nuking, Healing, DD, or Alternative Supports is the problem. Until the problem is fixed, the symptoms of RDM can't be resolved. If they aren't going to ever fix the problem, then I would rather RDM doesn't focus it's future updates on something that will do nothing to increase the value of RDMs.

I'm not against Enfeebling at all, but buffing has always been rather lack-luster in it's game design. Some of buffs were too good not to cycle around a party, but it really doesn't make for interesting game play VS just AOEing it and moving on to actually focusing on the MOB instead of your party's artificially created need for you to buff them individually. Unless the Single Target Buffs of RDM are going to be so much better than the AOE buffs of every other job, then you really aren't doing RDM any favors by intentionally hobbling it.

I don't know why it is so hard for you to understand. SE will never make RDM a DD people would chose to have because it has nukes and heals as well, SE will never buff RDM nuking to the point it would be picked over a BLM or SCH because it can melee and heal, and SE will never buff RDM healing to the point of WHM because it can melee and nuke (semantic arguments aside).

BLU is looking at you like you don't realize it is in the game and I'll spare you the talk about how good Hammers and Club WSs are because I'm tired of them as well. It would be one thing if BLU didn't heal better than RDM, but that it does that and Buffs at the same time that makes everything very one sides for me. I'm not interested in hearing what RDM isn't allowed to be because BLU is in the game and it outshines us HARD. Am I sad that I don't have to reset my procs every time I do VW and that my job is getting shit all over by the proc system? NO. But if the next set of content doesn't result in ANOTHER proc system, BLU VS RDM is not going to be a contest. They will step all over us in every category. AND the problem isn't BLU, it's RDM.

Do we need to be another BLU? No. But we don't need to be another BRD either. I don't really care which way it goes so long is it is implemented well. Do I prefer melee? You bet my Almace I do, but I like the mage aspect of my job just as much as the melee, that's why I'm a RDM. I have no interest in compromising either side nor excluding either unless I'm going to get something amazing out of it. So long as RDM becomes a legitimate force to be reckoned with, I would be satisfied. I'm very tired of these half-assed buffs that make me believe devs don't even consider RDM a real job when they plan new content.