RUN has Divine Magic?

[Rustic]

Well if you think of it that way then Enfeebling would have been so much more painful to cap without Dia as well, seeing as you have to land the spell for a skill up and once its put on it would no longer count, this way it is probably easier overall because Divine at least still has Banish spells which can be spammed slowly to skill, where as Enfeebling skill ups without Dia would be terrible.

Spam Poison instead. Problem solved. It did make Divine considerably rougher, though I've always found slapping worms with it quite effective (especially since they're weak to Light and you can simply walk out of spell range if they toss something lethal your way).

[Demon6324236]

This is true, I hadn't really thought of it like that. It's just that you'd figgure SE would have given us a viable alternative to skilling up divine aside from Dia, or would have removed Divine all together and moved Banish and Holy to Elemental.

Yeah, I wish they would have, but moving all of the Divine magic to Elemental would never work, then WHM and PLD would have good Elemental magic, which would create problems with sub-jobs probably.

Spam Poison instead. Problem solved. It did make Divine considerably rougher, though I've always found slapping worms with it quite effective (especially since they're weak to Light and you can simply walk out of spell range if they toss something lethal your way).

Poison would not work because you only get skill ups when you land the spell, Dia is irresistible and deals damage on impact which is why it continues to give you skill ups at all time even when the effects are on the target, but Poison, Para, Slow, all would be ineffective for skilling up because without sticking it, you get no skill, and once it lands, it has to wear before you can stick it again.

[Calatilla]

RDM also had flash, until PLD came out.