How i would change RDM if i could.

[Duelle]

Its ridiculous. we need more healthy healers and tanks for the health of the game. if way more jobs could conceivably and healthily tank, content could be approached on many more job combinations. we would have more players too as less players would encounter the "99 Stigma" of sorry man your job is useless because it isn't paladin run or whm.

Its foolish to not want rdm to be able to main heal. just because they can doesnt mean you have to. thats the point of having diversity of choice.

Except it's not a real choice. Red Mage is currently a go to healer because a) the only real healer job in this game is WHM, and b) not everyone plays WHM. The culture of "if you have cures, you're healing" mentality has not really died in this game.

I agree that the game needs more options for tanking and healing, but jobs are not boiled down into strict roles here because of how stuff is designed (on both a job and content level). With the skeleton crew currently running FFXI, we're long past the point where major changes in job and content design are feasible to make that happen.