Quote Originally Posted by SaberMaxwell View Post
I will say, Mr.JP, that what they're saying was a real phenomenon that occurred. People progged then dropped RDM players to the point I had to form my own static with the basic foundation being my desire to play RDM and not swap jobs.
Back in StB and ShB, RDMs were subject to the same rhetoric of "everyone gets their turn in the barrel" on several of the Official Forum arguments I participated in. A lot of the times, the players' mains were SMN, but not always, so I empathize with how you're feeling when being subjected to people telling you that same thing. I get where some players come from now that the shoe is on the other foot, but it's not any more fun of a rhetoric now than it was then, it's just that the shoe is on the other foot. At the core ironically, we all more or less agree on the solution: shackle raise and normalize RDM/SMN against each other.
Though at the moment, their damage is more or less normalized against each other--as Madoka pointed out, SMN isn't that far behind RDM. In your particular situation ironically, you could have gone as RPR anyway and it wouldn't have dropped the group's contribution too much at all--maybe sacrificed some LB gen--but RPR/RPR/NIN/RDM and RPR/NIN/SMN/RDM both give +2% contribution. Rolling SMN/RDM isn't a bad comp either necessarily, especially if raise access is what's being asked for, because it just means there are more players who can raise, and again, they do similar damage.
All I have to say is I'm sorry that happened I honestly didn't know since I personally didn't see it happen. I still stand by what I have said over and over in this thread and I'm just tired of repeating myself to these rdm who don't want to listen to reason. I'm done, I'm checking out, they have won because I'm tired of being attacked for not wanting to feel unwanted. Two wrongs don't make a right. Again I'm done with this thread and with any ego-infected rdm who thinks smn deserves to be denied in parties just because they had to go through that themselves. That's a community problem, not a balance one.