Pretty much been itching for some kind of direction, too. We obviously know RDM's martial side has been lacking for years, but the magical has definitely lost some oomph, or perhaps I should say has finally been truly "figured out" by others in that it wasn't as super to begin with. It's unfortunate it took pretty much every other mage job getting their own buffs to cement this fact, but our immediate future of Thunder IV and a couple Gain spells is pretty meh overall when you consider BLM and SCH get their T5s while WHM can AoE their version of Gain and are possibly getting Addle, too.

In general, we could probably expect a new WS from level progression, but this also runs the risk of going the way of Sanguine Blade and not being something we'd get natively. The dagger side also runs this risk, as with us not being on Dancing Edge and Shark Bite, a future dagger WS could follow this trend.

So really, I think a lot of us just want to feel like RDM will be worth taking to 99 and not just a generic parrot of the specialists that people will only take as a last resort.