Actually it was me saying I was able to easily melee VT/IT mob, not Demonjustin. And these are mobs in the old areas, who's stats are significantly lower then mobs of the same level in adoulin areas. Also I don't have a parser so I'm just eyeballing my accuracy, it's probably actually somewhere between 65-75% which it's pretty much not acceptable when meleeing in a party.

I personally don't think RDM should get a buff to their shield skill, mostly because I don't see RDM as a tank, though I know it has been used as such in the past but that was usually sub NIN making a shield pretty useless anyway.

As I mentioned in my other thread, I don't want a buff in sword skill solely to increase DD output. I want it because it would slightly change public opinion about what it is acceptable for RDM to do. Yes, RDM can already melee competently in most cases, but as long as their primary weapon skill is so low you will always be laughed at when you try to actually do so. That is what I most want to change.