RDM the unwelcome DPS :(

[RiotSiren]

You are effectively saying the same thing as everybody else here but you are just looking at it from a half-empty perspective. However you phrase it, the disparity remains and it's large. Did you know there is almost a 3000 DPS difference between BLM and RDM in full BiS? You can say that BLM is really strong or that RDM is very weak and it means the same thing mathematically when we compare the two. Nobody wants to see nerfs. We'd like to see RDM brought up a bit. Obviously not to BLM levels but it certainly could use a bit of love in pDPS and/or rDPS.

May I ask you what your static composition, as far as DPS is concerned, is? This is a factor. For instance, any composition not containing at least one meta DPS (BLM/MNK/DRG) is at a huge disadvantage. My static has a RDM/SAM/BRD/DNC so its much more difficult to recover from a death because you don't have the excess DPS from a strong meta DPS or two to allow for recovery. In your parse on E3S, your group managed to have 73k DPS, while having 3 DPS deaths. There is no way that was done if there weren't some meta DPSrs in there carrying the group. In a non-meta composition, mine for instance, if one DPS dies, there's a good chance you aren't clearing. The point is, yeah sure, a RDM can clear while being carried by meta DPS but any composition of DPS jobs should be viable. With deaths and a non-meta composition its just not likely if the group is still around ~i450.

MNK/DRG/BRD/RDM
In the particular fight I brought up the MNK died Twice and the DRG died once so their damage was fairly poor. I'm aware we really should not have made that clear.

Don't get me wrong I'm aware that MNK/BLM/DRG are pretty silly right now, and if you look at top rDPS BLM is about 2k higher then RDM at MAX.
However its also 2k Higher then BRD/MCH/DNC/NIN and 1.5k ahead of SMN. That's less a issue of RDM under-preforming and more a issue of BLM/MNK/DRG over-preforming is what I'm mainly getting at. RDM is fairly in line with most of DPS that no one currently is having issues with.

Edit: Removed a bit about RDM beating MCH in that fight, I was looking at MAX over Eden as a whole