@OP don't forget your spikes! seriously, that 1 or 2 procs of para is often the difference between life and death. Also, what's your sub? people on any job can do alot off of their sub. cures, debuffs, etc, all things that can if used wisely increase your survival. And be patient, until our merits and JSE come out we have no idea what those will bring to the table. There is also ALOT to be said for "pick your battles", different jobs stand up to different enemies in different ways. Rune is designed to be good against magic damage, and barring a run of stupid luck it generally is, the flipside is that physical mobs are a pain. Also, mobs that use shadows, we attack too slow and have no stun for interrupt, and lacking a good AoE offensive ability we can't instistrip the shadows-unless our SJ lets us.