Quote Originally Posted by Duelle View Post
That's more due to how the job was designed and what it was balanced around. XI had several issues, including the fact that they intentionally made RDM and BRD a source of MP regen, which when combined with the game's lack of healers outside of WHM AND the rush people had to get to 75 ASAP meant anyone with an MP bar that was not dealing damage equal to 2K+ spiral hells was instantly not worthy of a DPS slot and should just sub WHM and heal. The MP battery thing simply made it worse because a RDM became most beneficial to a group healing and spamming refresh. So you had people that wanted their MP batteries and healers to stay where they were, RDMs that loved the easy invites and pull they had in parties (AKA princess Red Mages) insulting the guys that wanted more out of the job since, you know, RDM is a guy with a sword that uses magic.
I'm talking original release rdm your talking 3 years after launch rdm.