[dev1010] Job Adjustments

[blowfin]

Good melee, decent & reliable enfeebling, below-average support. Good support, decent & reliable healing, below-average melee. Nuking can be made to fit somewhere in there, prefferably with 3-5 yalm range for nukes while in melee mode, but either shorter cast times or instant casts on a 1-minute cooldown. That way, you can't do everything at once on RDM by cluttering your inventory with gear.

I'm well aware that any meaningful change would require a notable amount of work and rebalancing, but that's where I stand on the matter.

So basically you want RDM to be anything other than the master of enfeebling and support magic, the role that that job obviously focuses on from a very early level. Gotcha.

Honestly I don't know why you guys don't level another job, RDM is not going to deviate that much from it's current path on the way to 99. Hell they even created BLU as a more powerful DD melee mage, and it fits exactly into the niche that y'all seem to be desiring. I know there is an urban myth that RDM is supposed to be some sort of sword master, but SE also published articles that said an army of mute BLM's that kicked ass with their melee skills existed. We all know how likely that one is.

[Supersun]

Since when is Red Mage the master of support magic? Last I checked 90% of Rdms enhancing spells are self target only and the only ones that are AoEable are the ones Sch already has access too. Or are you just referring to Refresh and Haste because last I checked those are subbable now and a job being defined "the master of support magic" because of 2 spells that everyone has access to (especially at 99 by subbing the job itself) is a terrible definition.

[Duelle]

So basically you want RDM to be anything other than the master of enfeebling and support magic, the role that that job obviously focuses on from a very early level. Gotcha.

Someone annoyed that a melee mage is used as something else. Shocking, isn't it?

There's nothing focused on in the early levels. People's desperation for cures (again, this is the game that turned summoner into the joke that was /WHM for several years) are very different from what you mention.

If you want change for rdm, I have one piece of advice, level sch or blu.

Ah, yes. The "look away from the problem and it'll go away!" approach. My car insurance bill that was not through Geico has arrived and what I'm paying All-State annoys me! I'll just put a sheet of paper over it and it'll go away!

[Sethimothy]

Ah, yes. The "look away from the problem and it'll go away!" approach. My car insurance bill that was not through Geico has arrived and what I'm paying All-State annoys me! I'll just put a sheet of paper over it and it'll go away!

That example is bad and you should feel bad. A better analogy from what you're pulling from would be "My insurance bill that was not through Geico has arrived and what I'm paying All-State annoys me! Rather than switching to Geico, which will save me more money and has the features that are right for me, I will demand that All-State become Geico, only better, even if All-State is perfectly acceptable to a certain group of players who have little to no interest in Geico."