Quote Originally Posted by Duelle View Post
I'll agree and add my own words as well.

Long Version: As a Red Mage, I've endured not only the identity crisis my job has felt since the first job revamp, but continuing misconceptions perpetuated by the playerbase and the developers doing nothing about it. We sat through the entirey of TAU being a refresh and cure-bot for parties. We spent more of the same during WotG while both camps (pro-caster and pro-melee) tore into each other. Abyssea gave us a reset and a chance to get our purpose in the game fleshed out, and instead we were allowed to fade into obscurity and uselessness. Then Tanaka returned and gave us a mistranslated job manifesto ("adept at self-enhancing through magic" does not translate to "turns their allies to demigods", by the way).

I doubt I'm alone in feeling this, as there are people not only within the RDM community, but with jobs like PUP and BST and SMN and THF that wish more could be done with their jobs to make them relevant and fun while giving room for the varying playstyles in the cases of the more versatile jobs.

In my case, I like swinging my rapier while bringing utility to the fray over standing in the back and spamming spells. I for one would like it to actually be useful to a party instead of being the shameful thing I get to do by myself. You've attempted to give us cheap imitations in the past. Now it's time to fix RDM.

Short version: Focus on fixing jobs. I don't mind the developer team bringing out new content, but with the gross imbalance of participation in events, that should really be priority #1. People do derive more fun when they are playing a class or playstyle they enjoy over being forced to play something they are not interested in.

I agree with you about that a job adjustment is needed. I originally played pup and I was very knowledgeable about it That was before abby came out. After abby came out I became unable to do anything on it so i was forced to play jobs that I did not care for as much as pup. And now I got 12 99s at least 10 of which i do not enjoy playing 100% of the time. I have tried to adjust with the demands of the game then i just get laughed at by ppls that have all this shiney junk. I have been laughed at since 75 as pup back then i accepted it but at same time i was holding my own in end game content. This was back when you could enter Dynamis with only reservations. And all HNMs were still time window spawns.