How can SE make the Redmage frontline job?

[Supersun]

Here's the thing that really cements the argument for not having RDM melee. If you are meleeing, you are not using your ACC/Potency staves.

You are aware that those staves in NO way affect the potency of our enfeebles. All the staves do is make our enfeebles more accurate.

And really, if the enfeeble can actually land assuming the monster is not immune, a Rdm can probably land it virtually naked.

Even if for some reason you need additional accuracy to land a spell. It'll be just as effective to just swap some Mnd gear for Macc since you are probably casting in a near full potency set anyway, and unless losing an additional 2% on your slow is the difference between a clean utsu cast and an interrupt there should really be no practical difference between the 2.

So can we get over the 2004 argument that we rely on staves because last I checked I haven't actually "needed" a staff to land anything that I was going to melee on since like Robber Crabs in my 50s.

[Daniel_Hatcher]

You are aware that those staves in NO way affect the potency of our enfeebles. All the staves do is make our enfeebles more accurate.

And really, if the enfeeble can actually land assuming the monster is not immune, a Rdm can probably land it virtually naked.

Even if for some reason you need additional accuracy to land a spell. It'll be just as effective to just swap some Mnd gear for Macc since you are probably casting in a near full potency set anyway, and unless losing an additional 2% on your slow is the difference between a clean utsu cast and an interrupt there should really be no practical difference between the 2.

So can we get over the 2004 argument that we rely on staves because last I checked I haven't actually "needed" a staff to land anything that I was going to melee on since like Robber Crabs in my 50s.

And there is another fault of SE's, RDM has no native staff skill, they should therefore not wear Staves, but SE made the best magical damage/accuracy weapons a staff.