Is there any reason to play BLM over RDM now days?

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If you truly enjoy the more complex job, it shouldn't matter how much DPS a simpler job is doing. If you're playing a more complex job for any reason other than "I enjoy it", you're doing it wrong.

Because you don't hire a surgeon to get a few stitches when you can go to a less expensive doctor that does the job equally as well? Unless the complex job can put up appreciably higher numbers in content over the easier job, you can pretty much guarantee that everyone is gonna take the job that doesn't wilt when it fails the RNG lottery of not being targeted for a raid mechanic. RDM is the new SCH, an OP job that guarantees it's competition is competition fails by the sheer fact of its existence. If RDM must remain simplistic, at least balance it so that it's Utility is what brings it a spot in raid, not it's numbers that rival a BLM.

I want to level a caster. BLM looks fun and engaging. Unfortunately, considering how ridiculously OP RDM is, I'd feel terrible if I tried to do anything harder then expert because the amount of stuff that the group would be missing if I went RDM is mind boggling. Thusly, I'm pretty much forced to make myself level RDM and tell myself I'm enjoying it when the truth is I'm struggling not to fall asleep.