[dev1010] Job Adjustments

[blowfin]

Someone annoyed that a melee mage is used as something else.

Your annoyance is misdirected though. RDM was never meant to be a "Melee Mage". This is purely a player driven myth.

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.

You guys aren't going to convince the general player base of this, nor do I think you're going to convince SE. You have done a fine job of convincing yourselves that RDM is somehow not going in the intended direction though.

RDM has unique, meritable enfeebling and enhancing magic. Have you even looked at your merits categories yet? It has unique spells at lvl 90 which make it a very strong support and enfeebling mage. It's pretty obviously been designed as the master enfeebler and support mage class. Also, AOE buffs generally aren't that useful. Unless you're allergic to casting on multiple people.

Again, if you don't like the direction of the job, level something else. It's obvious some of you aren't enjoying RDM.

Thankfully, some of these do stack between the jobs, but I'd also say there's a reason you never see a pure enfeebler BLU: People don't really need enfeebles that much.

No, that's a load of nonsense. It's because BLU is more of a melee and DD mage, and as you said yourself, the spell sets mean you're never going to be able to have access to all of those spells at the same time. I mean you guys can typecast your own jobs and other jobs all you want. Even go so far as to suggest an alternate role for other jobs so these suggestions for RDM seem more rational. It's obvious some of you are never going to see sense.

I do wonder if this isn't all a big case of the grass being greener somewhere else too. The other kinds of notions that I seem to see when the RDM melee thing comes up:
- We can't cure like WHM's
- We can't nuke as hard as other mages

My response (surprisingly) to all of that is: Level WHM or BLM instead.