Wondering what to do, honestly...

[Mithron]

I'm just frustrated right now because of the current imbalance at the higher tiers of play; yeah, it doesn't affect most content - and I am damn thankful for that - but since I am going into some of the really higher-level stuff hopefully soon, it's something I'm having to keep in mind; even if it is just to earn a single fucking mount, of all things.

You don't have to keep it in mind, though. You're not doing week 1 Savage prog. That's the only time you would want to keep it mind. That is the only content where RDM would struggle, and honestly, even that's an outlier for the history of this game. That's it. Not week 2+. I know it's easy to think FF14 balance is similar to other games but it's not. The meta here is 99% of the time just play what you have the most fun playing, and play it well. If that's RDM, then it's RDM. You can clear 4th tier Savage fights as RDM and get the mount.

[Travel]

Oh no, my job has bad deeps. I can't enjoy life anymore. As if a zero more or less adds fun to anything. If I had to choose between a fun job and one that has the deeps I'd take the former every time. lol

Thanks for popping by, lad. Meaningful contribution, there.

You don't have to keep it in mind, though. You're not doing week 1 Savage prog. That's the only time you would want to keep it mind.

That's actually it, though. There are some issues that have been highlighted in 6.2 with job balance, and that is what's gotten my attention. Like you said, it doesn't entirely concern me now - Week 1 has already passed - but there are going to be other Week 1 raids in the future, and it's better to address a problem now, while it's fresh, then to ignore it.

While I am focused on grabbing the mount currently, I will be trying to go into more difficult content, including speed clears, later; I'm just thinking in long-term, you follow? I'm not disagreeing with you, far from it; it's just that my brain works in very weird-as-shit ways, and I'm terrible at explaining shit.

[Mithron]

That's actually it, though. There are some issues that have been highlighted in 6.2 with job balance, and that is what's gotten my attention. Like you said, it doesn't entirely concern me now - Week 1 has already passed - but there are going to be other Week 1 raids in the future, and it's better to address a problem now, while it's fresh, then to ignore it.

While I am focused on grabbing the mount currently, I will be trying to go into more difficult content, including speed clears, later; I'm just thinking in long-term, you follow? I'm not disagreeing with you, far from it; it's just that my brain works in very weird-as-shit ways, and I'm terrible at explaining shit.

By the time you get to week 1 savage raiding, you'll already be able to play multiple jobs and roles, they'll all be geared, and RDM may even be the OP meta top DPS job. Things change here all the time in 14, and P8S is an exceptionally rare circumstance where job balance was a problem in week 1. It's not the norm, and it'll probably not happen again for several years given how much more this game has grown. Heck, back in HW MNK was the garbage job. Now look at it.