Please, NEVER nerf RDM!

[Emstidor]

STR does increase the damage of your combo if it isn't enchanted. You aren't meant to use it when it isn't enchanted though. He must really like it.

I think Magna has the right of it actually, RDM's melee skills are indeed physical damage but their potency is based on INT rather than STR, not unlike how NIN's melee skills scale of DEX instead of STR.

Which just makes this even more perplexing.