A WoE sword is arguably less work than a single TotM staff. There is absolutely no excuse not to have Chant du Cygne for anyone who is even half serious about wanting to pursue melee options on RDM. Period.

Thank you for reaffirming my point about mutually antagonistic and mutually appreciative roles, though. Healing/Buffing and DD'ing? Appreciative. Nuking and DD'ing? Antagonistic. A good RDM, whose primary party role is Healing, will likely do more damage by adding Melee/CdC than adding Nukes. Especially if there is a Bard or a Dancer in the party. Haste is a pretty cool guy and doesn't afraid of anything.