Let me tell you all a story:

It was 2003, and I was fighting in a ~Lv.45 party. I was on RDM/war (my combo since the Dunes) and was tragically evened-out on dmg output with one of the WARs in our PT. The only people to out damage me was the 2nd WAR (unless I had to cast more due to an MP inefficient backline).

Cue some drama about how I "don't know how to play my job right" and the weak WAR got leader, and subsequently kicked me from the PT. So, within a year, I became the RDM that silenced the "immune to silence" sky gods, paralyzed the ice-based NMs, and pretty much fixed every fub some bone-headed DD committed by aggroing the wrong mob or forgetting how to keep mobs off the mages.

I also pissed off a lot of other RDM folk because I debuffed the mobs they couldn't (or because they were levelling RDM so they could get into end-game events when no one wanted loldrg, loldrk, or were told their WAR sucked) and didn't want to be shown that RDM can be more than an MP battery.

Now, I have never had anything against melee RDM (I used to be one, after all); and even though it is no longer part of my playstyle, I know that players who use "one subjob onry" are some of the worst and most inefficient players in the game. Why? Because if they can't get a specific setup, they won't do anything... because they only know how to play their job one way.

Now, fast forward to 2005, 2006, 2009, 2011, oh look, here it is in 2012, and as a prett-damned-good WHM, I can tell you that "/blm for D2" is the last thing on any good WHMs mind when it comes to subjobs. Of course, buying a warp cudgel or insta-scroll must be horribly inefficient and inventory-hogging, so I wouldn't expect any of my DDs to have one.

Oh, I forgot, any good mage will have 2-3x the gear a DD will. So when I go 74/80 on inventory and another 15/80 in sack, I don't think anyone here has a leg to stand on when they suggest I go /blm to make their lives easier. Maybe I shouldn't bother casting Stona on a DD who decided not to turn around during a Gaze? Placing high standards on yourself is one thing. But being a jerk who refuses to even entertain the idea of playing a job in an non-contemporary manner is rediculous. It's also uneducated (lol@sub-blm) and that kind of narrow vision is synonemous with the "JP-Onry" LFPs of yore.

I can't blame people who think that way: they simply don't know any better. And while you can educate ignorance, stupid lasts forever.

Just a final thought: "If you want D2, level BLM". Trololol?