RIP RDM

[ManaKing]

its that the monster is either immune to the spell, or the spell carries negligible, if any effect.

Really because in VW, Pil was just sitting their drooling on himself because I landed Blind. Previous to a couple patches ago, you couldn't land enfeebles in VW about 1/2 the time. RDM got left out because enfeebles couldn't contribute to playing the same proc games as other jobs could. Now they can. RDM isn't fixed, but at least the newer content isn't specifically made to exclude RDM.

Once again, offer 2-4 and enfeebles. Get invited to VW on RDM. A couple of months back, not so much.

Do our enfeebles do anything? Not really. Dia 3 against most. Against some things, they will cripple NMs, but not against anything you would bring more than a party against. Still better than not even being considered in the game at all.

Spending 2 years as a Hastebot for ToAU parties didn't help either, and having been overlooked on both Enhancing and Enfeebling spells (which we were championing through our prime years) further distanced players from the job.

What many people chose not to see, is that having a "well geared RDM" was the argument in 2005/2006 against letting a RDM do things outside of the typecasted role. This is 2012, going on 2013, and the job is not being played in anything other than solo (or tight-knit lowman groups) because the job has nothing to contribute to the game.

This is the cold honest truth about it, and anyone who thinks otherwise truly is living in the past.

Have fun not playing your RDM. Don't gear it. And certainly never let anyone know you ever liked it. That way everyone thinks that no one plays RDM.

I'll keep gearing my other jobs on my RDM and full-timing my RDM. Why? Because it's possible and fun.