The Problem with Red Mage . . .

[Neisan_Quetz]

... Just what the heck are you talking about

It's like you don't know how an average works

There sure isn't, besides preference.
Nope, it's just as good and significantly more consistent, which is what I want. I want to hit for similar numbers most of the time and occasionally deal with some ups and some downs.

This makes absolutely no sense.

I'd rather do between 2-3K consistently and almost never go below 1.6k than deal with doing less. Most I've hit for outside of aby is 4k against mobs in dynamis. That's not bragging, I didn't think I would ever hit that hard with it. That was with dia 3 and full TP and all 8 hits. It's that nice 2-3K area that I hang out in that I care about.

Except you completely ignore the average damage, cherry pick low values for CDC (bringing up accuracy issues on most DC mobs is laughable and I'll have to tell you stop meleeing if that's the case) and highs for Req, then call CDC inconsistent. BMN syndrome on DC mobs, on Rdm of all jobs.

I don't appreciate people telling me that Almace and CDC are better than Excal and Req when I know they are the same but different. I don't care about how high CDC numbers go in cliche situations. That doesn't interest me in the slightest. I care about consistency in WSs, which is something RDM lacked, unless you count being consistently bad at them.

So they're different but the same? Do you even know what you're talking about? I gave you a situation of mobs I believe Rdm melee is acceptable and how either weapon performed. On higher mobs Req falls flat on its face, but I didn't bring this up because right now I don't recommend Rdm meleeing on such mobs unless the situation calls for it.

I can only watch my character Z snap so much before I look for something different.

This has nothing to do with how good either WS is at all.