Quote Originally Posted by RiotSiren View Post
Same!

Looking at the numbers RDM is actually pretty fine right now and players, ever the hard core ones, should not be excluding it from their groups.

Unfortunately things wont change until the perception that RDM is "weak" goes away.
Comparatively speaking RDM is weak. You compared it to MCH which is a pure ranged DPS that is currently also under performing in my opinion. You should be comparing it to BLM, the top caster job. I calculated the percent difference between BLM and RDM on FF logs for savage Eden content across multiple tiers (max, 90, 75, 50, 25 percentile). There is a 13-14% between RDM and BLM across all tiers. So even arguing that BLMs take more skill and under perform at lower skill levels doesn't apply here. At least not in savage content. A BLM with a 25 percentile parse is still roughly 13-14% difference from a 25 percentile parse RDM. I'm not certain how you consider a caster with that much disparity from the top caster job not weak. What percent difference do you believe is acceptable? I say that the percent difference should be about half of what it currently is and it would be acceptable. To me, the difference is huge.