Quote Originally Posted by Ingolf View Post
RDM's were great soloers, stunners, tanks, debuffers and healers.

They only found their way into obscurity after SE killed RDM/NIN tanking and debuffs became less necessary with Abyssea and VW.

Upping the level cap made convert one less ability that RDM's had under their belt too. A lot of RDM's problems now-a-days is that pretty much everything they can do, other jobs can do better.

I don't know why everyone assumes they were always under-powered, they were one of the most necessary jobs for a long time.
It's because most people either:

1. Never played FFXI and will hate on, which is a common trend on these forums.
2. Played FFXI and want XIV to be a unique snowflake compared to it's predecessor even though the game was beyond successful so it had to do something right.
3. Want XIV to resemble XI in no way -- I read in a topic people want "Store TP" and "Rolanberry items" to go away because it was used in FFXI, that's how far the ignorance goes.

RDM was the most powerful job in FFXI next to Blue Mage. I would say Samurai but that job was SE's favorite so it's not counted.