Quote Originally Posted by Sunrider View Post
That's why I suggested our enhancing magics are overdue for updates.

Whether scaling re-calculation or simply higher tiers, it's time to see our enhancing abilities re-explored. Beefing up Phalanx and Stoneskin for even another couple hundred damage reduction would be a nice augmentation of the job's survivability, but ensures that you don't simply use the RDM to low-man/solo Voidwatch, or some nonsense.

The problem is that the cap was raised, but RDM's tools weren't really raised with it, at least not terribly proportionately.
The problem with buffing up Stoneskin/Phalanx is the higher they go, the more we dominate lower content, thats why it would need to be a new -DT spell. -DT is only a percent, not a -number. As I'm sure you know, the way Phalanx works is why FCs work as well as they do, or did at least when Phalanx was the way to go about it, with -DT it would limit us from being gods to lower content while still giving us something to help in endgame. If Phalanx were just a -100 @500 enhancing & Stoneskin capped at 1.5k damage with gear instead of roughly 500, then its no doubt that any past content would be easily soloable by RDM.