How can SE make the Redmage frontline job?

[Neisan_Quetz]

(snipped for length) Red Mages' position in a party is better served on the backline, where your strengths are. Not on the front line where you become a liability.

So a Rdm's position is to be a -1 Sch at 99? Is that what you're saying?
Stop Bringing up Blm and scythe, Rdm still has better melee gear and Weaponskills than all 3 of Sch, Blm, and Smn. They are the only meleers in the game worst than us, and you're okay with that? Why, exactly?

You make a valid point. RDM is a completely useless job. Apparently, in this thread we have learned that RDM does absolutely nothing that warrents their existence in a party. They can't heal worth a damn, they can't buff, somehow enfeebling is pointless, their nukes (despite allowing them to 2 shot mobs) aren't up to snuff, and the goal of posters in the thread are to bring up their melee skills, but not to the point of a "melee only" job (because we all know that would make them broken).

So, the job has no use in a party that someone else can't do better, and your goal is to become subpar by enhancing something that would make them still not as good as everyone else. Every time you guys say someone has no idea what it is to be a RDM and start posting this non-sense, it makes me wonder if you are just arguing from a point of ignorance. That's not to say you are stupid, but you just don't know what you are talking about, and so actual information looks foreign to you, and therefor wrong.

Do any of you have jobs other than RDM? Do you know what it's like to not be in the situation you are in? You talk like you've only leveled RDM and have never been another job watching a RDM play. You'd see that RDM is a very strong mage job, and that asking for enhancements to your melee would require equal enhancements to every melee, just to keep balance. You are not one of the 5 PURE melee DPS jobs. If you want to be viable for that spot, you play that job.

If you feel like you should be able to fill the spot of a DRK or BLU or NIN as a caster/melee hybrid, you are just not being realistic. Many of you say that you play RDM instead of these other jobs because you like the play style. If that were true, you wouldn't be trying to modify it so drastically.

You're almost getting it now. If nothing is changed at 99 Rdm won't be desired in a party setting at all, and will be the Blm of the Tau era, wanted for all of 3 enfeebles no one else will be able to get/Accession if people even want them at all for those 3 enfeebles.