On Red Mage melee...

[Greatguardian]

You say you don't want to nerf RDM casting:



but before the sentence is through:



followed by this tripe:







Your solution is to gimp the living hell out of RDM so that it's less useful than BST of SMN?
Lets give RDM a stance that makes them a second rate DD PLD.



There is nothing wrong with RDM melee. It's good against trash mobs. It sucks against harder mobs. You want to have a stance that makes your melee better against harder mobs while nerfing your magic? It's called /change job. If you don't need RDM magic play a real DD. If all you care about is role playing, find a role playing LS.

Now, quit playing dallas in the RDM forums.

I could man-hug you, no homo. This in a nutshell is everything that is wrong with Duelle's stance argument. You (Duelle) are not buffing melee, you are nerfing magic and requiring melee'ing to do what we already do now. For crying out loud, you bring up Blink and Stoneskin as if they should only be available in your melee stance. That is bloody horrible.

There is a very clear bloody reason that Red Mage is ten times the mage Scholar will ever be, despite having a weaker spell selection and fewer actively contributing magical JAs. Not sure what it is? Let me spell it out for you:

Red Mage is extremely powerful because it has access to every single one of its spells at maximum potency at all times.

Undermine that and you undermine what makes Red Mage good. So seriously, don't you or anyone else dare complain about us "haters" coming in and "trolling" you guys while you're tossing around "harmless ideas" that "simply augment Melee without hurting Magic". You admit straight up that you absolutely refuse to believe that there is any way to make Red Mage's melee aspect good enough for you without fundamentally nerfing Red Mage's magical prowess.

If you won't be content with anything less than a nerf, then shove off. No one wants to hear it. I don't care how you justify it to yourself. Real Red Mages aren't going to sit idly by while you destroy our class.