RDM in endgame

[Thorva]

Some of these ideas are really good, but the ability to stack them is too strong. Even as a rdm enthusiast and rdm being my favorite job, some of those ideas just shouldn't be stacked up like that. As rdm/pld I push 2k def with -50% dt and more than +80 enmity in gear, that is pretty solid. Giving rdm another +50% def is too much, DT II is ok, 70 phalanx wouldn't break the game, but phalanx 70, -50DT, -10%DT II, and 3k def. That would be too much.

Stacking bio and dia seems good, but it becomes overpowered when you look at the amount of debuffs a geo, cor, brd can put on and their potency.

Have to be careful about what buffs get raised and their potency, rdm has the opportunity to put up the most debuffs at once so naturally they need to be a good tier or two weaker. Just need to be stronger than what they currently are AND fix the resist rates.

As for duration, that hardly matters anymore with the amount of nm's that have buff absorb, full or partial buff wipe. So blu 90 second duration or rdm 12 minute duration really doesn't matter too much. Comparing blu to rdm is a dead argument anyway, they don't get the same gear options, SE has put blu way above rdm in many aspects. Rdm really only has 1 redeeming quality, enfeebling, and that is dead in this game right now.

As a mythic rdm and phenomenal m. acc sets I get resisted on literally everything all the way down to dispel without a geo, that is a problem. Beyond that my enfeebles are utterly useless and most T4 fights that I go as rdm (teles only) I do nothing but spam dispel in a geo bubble.

[Shiyo]

As a mythic rdm and phenomenal m. acc sets I get resisted on literally everything all the way down to dispel without a geo, that is a problem. Beyond that my enfeebles are utterly useless and most T4 fights that I go as rdm (teles only) I do nothing but spam dispel in a geo bubble.

Yep, RDM can't even do their main job without a geo, it's disgusting.
Geo needs to be nerfed to the ground and the game needs to be re-balanced without needing a geo.

[Jakuk]

As for duration, that hardly matters anymore with the amount of nm's that have buff absorb, full or partial buff wipe. So blu 90 second duration or rdm 12 minute duration really doesn't matter too much. Comparing blu to rdm is a dead argument anyway, they don't get the same gear options, SE has put blu way above rdm in many aspects. Rdm really only has 1 redeeming quality, enfeebling, and that is dead in this game right now.

IMO That's one of the main things wrong with FFXI right now, their overuse of Full Dispel.

Moves that do that should be either:
A. Limited to a bare minimum
B. Part of a mechanic that there is a way to avoid

I also hate their Dark-elemental resistant mobs that seem to be basically every NM they add now, I wish they'd remove that or add Dispel II as a light based Dispel for RDM and SCH.

[Shiyo]

Full dispel is an archaic mechanic that does not belong in the game.
It was fine in 2005 when all we had was protect/shell/berserk but now every single job has too many MANDATORY buffs they're balanced around having to actually be viable/capable of contributing.

This months ambu is a perfect example, due to the full dispel from the soulflayer no dd jobs not ranger/cor/summoner are worth bringing on the highest difficulty because they lose over 50% of their damage from not having their own self buffs up.

[Urmom]

I think it has some uses on a few select mobs. Like it's a good way to basically make people use rng over melees or to discourage overbuffing but the overabundance especially on mobs you kind of need buffs on is ridiculous. As is it's near unresistable nature... unless the player is casting it

[Thorva]

Yeah, it comes down to RDM's role not being filled unless it has a geo(as you said).
Which is disgusting. Nerf geo to the ground and rebalance the game so that we don't need a geo to play the damn game.
It's completely absurd that a RDM cannot do it's main role of enfeebler without a geo to give enough macc to actually land things, what were they even thinking?

RDM NEEDS TO BE ABLE TO DO IT'S MASTER ENFEEBLER ROLE. Smite let's DRK do it's damage role, last resort helps a ton, souleater helps a bunch. What does RDM have to help it enfeeble? Nothing.

Stymie should be passive.

Adding this to my thread as well as quoting a portion into the top of thread.

[Thorva]

Just got resisted, not full resist, on mythic rdm with AM up. There is an obvious problem.

SE can't talk to the community, they can't even so much as admit they have failed on rdm for the past 7+ years. The inability to so much as communicate with player base about a known problem or fix a known problem is the very reason this game has been losing so many players.

Coincidentally, it is the same reason pokemon go failed so fast. I am surprised their marketing team hasn't mentioned this after every marketing team on the planet was talking about the failure of Niantic with Pokemon Go.