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