Quote Originally Posted by Kejara View Post
People want to be viable in end game content and not feel like they are holding their teams back. There is already discrimination going on in PF because numbers matter. Some people are willing to give up their utility to avoid this discrimination and up their contribution. It is NOT the fault of those who play the jobs with utility but rather the fault of the encounter design team. Lower DPS jobs have no place in DPS race encounters. Period. It's just mathematics. I play RDM and I don't give a crap about verraise. Some people may like it and that's fine. As far as I'm concerned it can fall into the abyss never to return and I wouldn't care. Vercure can join it. It's the rest of the RDMs kit that I enjoy. However, I cannot speak for everybody.

In current encounter design, there is NO place for support/hybrids. Healers are competing for DPS. Tanks are competing for DPS. DPS are competing for, you guessed it, DPS. SE has made the end game meta evolve into one giant DPS competition for ALL roles. FF logs furthers the cause. Either SE needs to address encounter design to include a proper role for supports/hybrids or start thinking of removing the notion entirely.

And in all honesty, it sounds more like you're trying to preserve your job's position at the upper end of the DPS hierarchy rather than address the fundamental flaw that exists for DPS jobs that appear in the much lower portion of the hierarchy.
To be fair, rdm without raises and cure is just a black mage that has ver infront of all their spells flavor wise, isn't exactly a "red mage" anymore at that point. Also the ratios between what a red mage does compared to a blm isn't that far off from how it was in alphascape, the average dps values have just increased by 2x, but the ratio is relatively the same. There's actually plenty of room for support mages in progression and even reclear. If rdm were to get any kind of buff, I'd rather them just get an embolden buff than a flat personal dps buff.