Until this thread I honestly had no idea. I main drg in second coil now, and my group hasn't made it to t9 yet but this makes me concerned that I'll be a liability when we get there now simply by job design. At first I thought, oh it can't be -that- bad can it? So I had my sister, who plays bard from time to time, check the m.defense on her i86 bard. She has 469 m.def compared to my i98 DRG's 362.

That is pretty alarming.