Useless spells

[Dale]

/sigh

I never said RDM should be equal to other frontline jobs. I have MNK leveled to 99, it's ok, I don't think it's as enjoyable to play as RDM though. I've heard that RDM has other problems besides the one I posted, but I haven't encountered those yet in the process of leveling it. I have encountered this one, and it annoys me that such a badly designed spell is in the RDM spell list.

Perhaps I was a bit too strong with my language, I did not mean that SE screwed over the job in general. But you have to agree that with this particular spell they went out of their way to make it less useful then it could have been. They intentionally force you to melee in enhancing magic gear to increase it's damage. They intentionally made the elemental relationships unfavorable. And they intentionally left out off hand and double attacks, this at a time when the cap was still 75 and joyuse was RDMs best weapon.

That post wasn't directly aimed at you. It was aimed at the other guy. Demonjustin.

And I read his post again and that seemed to be his beef to me. Here is his words again in bold:

We're not exactly weak, but we are left behind by most other front line jobs quite easily. Even in our best possible gear I have a hard time keeping up with your average DDs thanks to our flaws. We have a lack of gear other jobs get in the DD department, often times being left with very random pieces, and last I knew our best set was simply a random mix up of different gear from MPNMs and Delve bosses where we got thrown a bone.

So if he's not complaining about being on par with other front line jobs what is it he's are upset about?

I also think Red Mages have plenty of melee gear available to them. They have Haste 2 and temper (a very potent combination). So I would just get your Red Mage to 99. Buy the spark gear. Get the scimitar and some double attack/accuracy gear before you judge them. Because they melee quite well, even against high level monsters and I think you are going to like it. But if someone wants to do the most melee damage, they should roll something like a Samurai or Monk. Not a support mage class.