Inquiry to the Devs

[Devrom]

So, if we wanna DD, level a "real DD". If we wanna cure under that mentality, we really should level WHM.

yes, i did. you should too for pure healing and no, rdm is still a great healer outside abyssea.

If we wanna nuke, BLM's the go to.

depends but unless i really need to kite/nuke something in a safer and steadier way as rdm, yes

Buffing would obviously go to BRD, COR, or SMN.

i would pick rdm before any of those for support outside. brd was only essential in merit parties and people looked for brd first because they were forced to do so due to the rarity not because their contribution was any greater than rdm who had to spam cures, haste, refresh non stop, it wasn't, at least for your average merit party which was the majority. can call it 50-50 (not going into number crunching) distribution for duty if you will.

So again, can you answer what point there is to RDM, or are we gonna cling to the "Jack of All Trades, Suck at them All!" line of balance-mongering? If you wanna backpedal and be like, "Well, uh... I'm not sure how you could make it work, then..." then don't even enter the conversation.

i am not saying they should make it work to begin with. imo, it is pretty good in theory but not really so in practice. i am saying that being a "true" jack of all trades is not a good thing in an mmo in the end, while being fun and all to some extent and i would prefer to be a very useful mage while being a week DD to being a mediocre mage and a mediocre DD. some unreasonable stuff the OP had mentioned should definitely see an update but say, turning enspells into enspells of doom? no, just no.

edit: tbh, if you are advocating the rdm being jack of all trade, you should be complaining about the enmity nerf before the DD aspect being week. before the nerf, rdm was the best tank out there in the right hands and now, you can not seriously (couldnt find a better word) tank at all.