Inquiry to the Devs

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I've been a RDM for all of a month, but I think I'm the only one who has no interest in DDing.

If my Abyssea groups have all the key jobs covered, the first thing that usually happens is that I'm asked to gear RDM.

And I love it.

Even when I can't land all our enfeebles due to mob immunities, the enfeebles that do land still make fights go so much smoother. Also, I like that my friends give me the freedom to evaluate situations mid-battle and react accordingly. It's so easy to seamlessly change focus from curing/status curing to nuking to enfeebling and back again, and I have the gear to do all the above decently well.

I should have leveled this job a long time ago.

I know most of you are into the melee thing, and that's fine, but I really hope SE does not ignore the mage side of Red Mage. I leveled RDM solely because of its abilities and versatility as a mage, and I don't want to see that aspect of RDM take too much of a back seat. I enjoy it thoroughly. xD

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Granted, that was the rdm complaint before is you didn't want to just be healers, but you had already taken the job of healer from whm in end-game at 75 on merits and most everything else. Perhaps if all the rdm out there refused invites when expected to be the healer, but that didn't happen. Seems to me the devs have simply been following the direction that play-style had taken rdm in.

Be careful with this statement because there was some serious Bandwagoning on Rdm during the TouA era. Just as there was a gross exaggeration of Samurais in the TouA era there was also a gross exaggeration of Red Mages. It wasn't that Red Mages didn't refrain themselves from stealing Whms lime light, in fact it was the opposite, most career Red Mages agreed that White Mage should of been buffed. The issue was that there were a lot of people that leveled the job SOLELY to be their merit *****. Simply put Red Mage WAS the best at merit healing at the time and no amount of boycotting would have stopped the bandwagon because the bandwagon always flocks to whatever is the easiest and Red Mage healing was definitely that.

I know most of you are into the melee thing, and that's fine, but I really hope SE does not ignore the mage side of Red Mage. I leveled RDM solely because of its abilities and versatility as a mage, and I don't want to see that aspect of RDM take too much of a back seat. I enjoy it thoroughly. xD

I wouldn't be too worried. SE so far has shown that they are looking to buff melee/mage at the same time such as the gain spells, armor that increases buff durations, ect... And while I am skeptical that they can find an effective way to add to the mage side to keep it new and exciting AND "fix" the melee side they certainly haven't forgotten about the mage side and knows a lot of people play like that.