Thanks patronizing was the tone I was aiming for. I could have been a lot meaner in my replies, but please feel free to keep waving around your victim card. And as it turns out great axes routinely cause more damage than daggers. And here I was thinking it was just great katanas, polearms, and swords. Dnc still has great axes beat, but that is with Pyrrhic Kleos not Rudra's.
Here is my point. Thf does it's damage less often, but has higher ws numbers. That's its special thing. Which means bigger skillchain closers. That is why they are worried about adding the spell ardor, because it plays right into thfs hand. They think adding ardor to rdm will make it more desired as a job, but if to do it they nerf thf it will just make both jobs less desired, because without thf no one will want ardor anyway.