These jobs grasp at straws for some utilities we have, but neither is a huge threat. And if their future existence means our death, then im sure that spells doom for many other jobs, including bard for example (when was the last time they got a heavy adjustment? Dontcha think they mighta wanted some things geo may offer?)

Lots of jobs have gotten petty or few updates recently, our woes may be many but quite honestly i still use most my jobs a lot, if anything my RNG is my least used job at this point. With months before release, countless updates, and still many things we have over those jobs, yes, theres little threat from them. Also the fact that there are new jobs doesnt mean anything. Had the new jobs been say... "Berserker" and "Sniper" im sure the RNG and DRK and possibly sam/war forums would have been in an uproar! But instead, these are more flavors of non DD professions.

Lets look at the major facts so far, in response to geomancer, we still likely will have mp longevity, actual cure power to some degree, fastcast, effective defensive buffs, great damage mitigation tools and gear, as well as matching their nuke power, and having likely still more potent enfeebles. To get any/all of those they will require subbing us just as sch does, but sch hasnt totally replaced us either. Its just the fearful masses jumping to conclusions that because they are doing one thing, they cant possibly have any thoughts about working on something else ever.

This COULD be the death of rdm, maybe. But as we are still more flexible, even if rdm isnt wanted in EVERY DAMN EVENT like it was at 75, well, tough, not every job was wanted in every event then, ill take being accepted as a space filler or used for select events. Its been said, who doesnt have atleast 2 99 jobs these days?

Main problem here is people blowing things way the hell out of proportion! "Abyssea is over!" "Voidwatch is over!" "Dynamis is dead!" Well hate to break it to you all, but just because its not the new hot button making everyone wet their pants doesnt mean people arent still flocking to these and older events! Sorry if i dont shead a tear and feel left out of legion as rdm, but really if GEO or RNF are any more popular for these older, still vastly popular events, then i suppose we have a problem, but they already said they are designed to not be involved with them so i dont see a problem.

So SE, go ahead and make an event that Caters to GEO and RNF, because we can tell now, unless these jobs are truely, truely, truely broken, there is little chance it will put us out of a job. Dnc didnt, blu didnt, sch didnt. Hell whm only just recently took their job back.

There is a gigantic difference between "reading between the lines" and "Jumping the gun" or "Flying off the handle" or just plain over-reacting to this. Maybe the japanese players have capped all jobs to 99 and are demanding something else to level for all we know.

I am not worried, threatened, or upset at this news and look forward to the new jobs, zones, and possibility of these being useful for rdm/rng or rdm/geo play.