Either SMN and RDM should lose their Raise or BLM should get a Raise.

[Lina_Slayer]

I really don't think a res is needed for the class to be viable in progression, Ultimate's first clear had MCH-BRD-DRG-NIN so no combat res from their dps and while they said in an interview how important RDM was for their progression, even if we get a res there is no way it would be as powerful as RDM's, meaning that if a group feel dps res is important they would still progress with RDM.

However if we do enough damage (either by pure super high personal damage or some kind of offensive utility) to surpass SMN people would try to fit the class in the team because in the end you need damage to kill the boss, just like happened on Ultimate's first clear where they used RDM to make progression faster but to actually kill they went with the physical meta because it just brings way more damage to the table and quite frankly if we do the damage we should be doing and your static bullies you into playing something else you would be better with another static.

[Neela]

if we do the damage we should be doing and your static bullies you into playing something else you would be better with another static.

#sotrue

for me the whole discussion around smn, mch (prepatch) and rdm, blm now is about being useful in pfs/random parties - cause like you say in a static which is based on fc/ls member or even rl friends everybody should play whatever he wants - even dbl cls or whatever. Sure even than talking about syngery and party buffs should be a must have but if you are forced to go with something what won't fit you - you are cleary in a wrong spot at all. : o

[Remedi]

I really don't think a res is needed for the class to be viable in progression, Ultimate's first clear had MCH-BRD-DRG-NIN so no combat res from their dps and while they said in an interview how important RDM was for their progression, even if we get a res there is no way it would be as powerful as RDM's, meaning that if a group feel dps res is important they would still progress with RDM.

However if we do enough damage (either by pure super high personal damage or some kind of offensive utility) to surpass SMN people would try to fit the class in the team because in the end you need damage to kill the boss, just like happened on Ultimate's first clear where they used RDM to make progression faster but to actually kill they went with the physical meta because it just brings way more damage to the table and quite frankly if we do the damage we should be doing and your static bullies you into playing something else you would be better with another static.

I'm a bit torn on what Lucrezia said since they said they changed their dps setup to get the kill but allowed the DRK to stay DRK even though a WAR would've been better, it's somewhat a double standard for me but maybe it's just me