Well I doubt FF will ever tone down mages that much, at its core is the idea of a mage doing massive damage, and DOTS have always been awesome no matter, the risk right now is effed up. We used to pull risk of hate, and in this game I either don't pull hate ever cause my GLA is so good, or in some glitch of fate I pull all the hate in the world and die for no reason having not casted a spell :/. But seriously should THM be able to solo dodore, probably not rdm could solo sub nin in ffxi but that still took skill and a little time. Did they need to gimp nms when people were already soloing them (conj can solo nms too just not all of them you can look up vids.) I think half the problem is the classes aren't beefed up (minus thm gla arc and sometimes conj), and then on top of that the mobs aren't beefed up and they gimp the mobs that are beefy . A stupid range and a killer tp attack on mobs is not challenged :/