RDM the unwelcome DPS :(

[dinnertime]

SMN has been up or down DPS-wise with every patch and in every single patch it had a raise, so raise has nothing to do with it, just an easy target to blame, more like incompotence handling the class because since the very start of the class they simply did not know what they wanted it to be. It simply should not have ever been packaged with SCH. And they spent every single patch trying different things with it. Raise is not at fault.

Yoshi-P said it himself in the recent liveletter that BLM has higher DPS than the other casters because they don't have Raise. It's actually a legitimate reason to them.

Besides, SMN was barely weak ever except 2.x and now 5.0. It was strong in 3.x and actually busted in 4.x. I guess now they did lower SMN damage because people had debates in 4.x about DPS Raise being "too good" when it really wasn't.

[geekgirl101]

Yoshi-P said it himself in the recent liveletter that BLM has higher DPS than the other casters because they don't have Raise. It's actually a legitimate reason to them.

I'm all fine with BLM being the higher DPS since it was like that in FFXI, what I don't want is RDM being so weak it's being ignored and becomes nothing more than a solo job like what happened in FFXI or only being used at hunts. It hurts me deeply to see RDM is no longer considered as a raiding job anymore and that it's going to become a job nobody will bother playing or leveling.

PS: Stop comparing RDM with BLM.

[Zyneste]

I'm all fine with BLM being the higher DPS since it was like that in FFXI, what I don't want is RDM being so weak it's being ignored and becomes nothing more than a solo job like what happened in FFXI or only being used at hunts. It hurts me deeply to see RDM is no longer considered as a raiding job anymore and that it's going to become a job nobody will bother playing or leveling.

This is a bit hyperbole. RDM isn't in a great spot and neither is SMN. If one class gets buffed and the other doesnt, we'll really start seeing issues. The idea of playing BLM in savage makes people shutter and it still has a prog stigma on it, so SMN/RDM are going to continue to get party invites. This might change overtime, but for now we are relevant on SMN/RDM from the BLM "difficulty" stigma alone.

[Vallhallix]

Yoshi-P said it himself in the recent liveletter that BLM has higher DPS than the other casters because they don't have Raise. It's actually a legitimate reason to them.

Yes, but as other posters have stated regardless of what he said, the past patches don't reflect this. Why is raise the villain when both classes have the ability to heal themselves, and SMN's is a party wide regen. Why is raise the reason for low damage when it has always been there even when SMN was at it's prime, instead of that new addition heal? makes no sense.