So... um... When is SE going to stop jipping rdm?

[Doombringer]

i love that the enspell2 line isn't even mentioned. cuz they're so bad as to be a non-factor. lets fix that?

beyond that, simple things like native dual wield, wider gear access, and smaller tweaks to spells we already have would go a long way.

for example: gravity 2 is already -40 evasion. +5 blade madrigal is +43 ACC, and an 11 hunters roll is +50. gravity 2 is already strong enough to matter if only it could land on the high tier stuff players actually care about acc/eva on. it seems SE is afraid of it's movement effect. they either need to get over that fear, or remove the movement effect so we can use the evasion effect.

[Zeargi]

i love that the enspell2 line isn't even mentioned. cuz they're so bad as to be a non-factor. lets fix that?

I've always said they should act like the COR's elelment shots if they are only for the first attack

beyond that, simple things like native dual wield, wider gear access, and smaller tweaks to spells we already have would go a long way.

No to this, yes to the rest. RDM shouldn't have duel wield as a native trait. While they should have the Shield Mastery Trait, even how most people just sub NIN anyway.

[Demonjustin]

No to this, yes to the rest. RDM shouldn't have duel wield as a native trait. While they should have the Shield Mastery Trait, even how most people just sub NIN anyway.

Well while /NIN used to be used for tanking and soloing, now days its also the only possible choice for DDing, /DNC just does not give the same DW and the lack of that 10% DW is what brings it down so very far in damage, let alone any other sub that has no DW like WAR or DRK. RDM's biggest melee flaw is the lack of DW while simultaneously lacking any form of native Attack Buff, which literally means we either pick DW or Attack, and since DW is almost always the one with a higher overall DPS, NIN is always the correct choice.

The only 3 things that would really truly put RDM on the boards in general and give it some amount of acceptance would be Fencer in high levels, Dual Wield, or a spell that grants us a ton of Attack like Temper does Double Attack. Gear alone is what we are getting right now, and before this last update we lacked even that, but that alone will not put us on the board it will only make us suck a little less, so when you get right down to it, we need something else too, Dual Wield is just the best option.