On Red Mage melee...

[MarkovChain]

owleyes is as useless as meleing on pup, a RDM is never idle it's always active. It's not a surprise to anyone that you farm crap like this, paired with pdt and mdt. In nowadays FFXI the only RDM equip that are usefull are buff duration extension, MND, nuke, full AF3+2 and the appropriate damage + staves and crimson cuisses.

Honestly SE is going to have a hard time releasing gear that would be more useful if they do not unlock various stats cap (like MND) ; it's not specific to mages anyway.

You can argue that rdm melee is dumb but be sure to not use non retarded argument against it (like capping hate on rdm => you need mdt or -enmity gear) or requiring staves for magic acc or w/e.

Keep your haste, fast cast, pdt,mdt and hmp gear for yourself but please leave us alone with your dumb gear.