Quote Originally Posted by Urielparadox View Post
It's clear they have support jobs because brd exist, and rdm is suppose to be a solo supporter not a party supporter, their spells are meant to function for them self, but be useful to others(ie not a main heal, suppose to be a spell sword dps). RDM would be very easy to put into the game this second just combining different existing job skill from various classes/jobs and making them used with a sword. They also said all the new jobs are coming out in 3.0 which is ~1.5 patches away so why would not wait till then. Yoshi already stated in an interview rdm is one of the jobs he wants to add to the game earlier then later.
Sch has miasma and virus, drg has slow, and it's whole debuff rotation, monk has a debuff rotation.... if you look at the dat mines it looks like ninja has a debuff rotation aswell... oh look every dps(except blm), sch, and tanks have a debuff rotation, or strong debuff skill(pld/sch).
Whaa? Black Mage does have debuffs. Blizzard 1 gives Heavy, Blizzard 2 gives Bind, Lethargy has slow AND heavy (which is insta-cast and works great on the Dreadknights in T5), and Freeze which also binds. Not to mention we also get access to Virus as well. Sure, it isn't a debuff 'rotation' but Black Mages have a good chunk of skills with added effects to them. They may be situational but I've found a use for every single one of those skills at some point.