Radicci, lol. Not once did I mention FFXI in my post, we were mostly talking about the single player games. Goodness.

Wildsprite, you are wrong. It's simple math, and if you're not good at math, then I can definitely see how you might not understand the most efficient ways to play a RDM. RDM crappy melee damage means nothing when real melee classes are auto attacking up to 5 times harder than you are. If your RDM was meleeing Nidhogg, you are not a good player or RDM. If you are meleeing as a RDM in meta-game content, you are playing poorly, end of story.

All of the above discussions matter depending on which game we're talking about, and what level on content we're talking about.