Quote Originally Posted by Ageofwar View Post
God damn it RDM is a healer not a DPS

OK that's the jokes a side, sounds like you, like me are a product of FFXI DPS RDM frustrations
A Healer? You mean a buffer/debuffer right? Don't you look at a red mage and instantly think "yeah this is a mage that stands in the back rows and helps his friends without getting in the way, casting Refresh and Sleepga".
Seriously, I too played RDM in FFXI, I liked it, I had a great time, it was the only job that I was happy playing really, but ever since then I've always hoped that XIV's RDM, if they'd ever add one, would look nothing like the disaster it was in FFXI. I don't care whatever exploit people could pull off with /nin, I don't care what you were able to solo, it simply was just nowhere as fun to play as XIV's incarnation looks. It seems to have an interesting rotation and every single one of its animation has a character that was almost absent in FFXI beside the AF.