Quote Originally Posted by MomomiMomi View Post
I think the fact we have a dps job that can lower its dps output to offer support disagrees with this. Yes, BRD is expected to dps, but that's not its only role. It's also a support job, as situational as its support may be.
Alot of the dps roles have support tactics implemented in their moves. IE Summoner's miasma implementing disease, and Dragoons move (disembowel I think?) adding more susceptibility to piercing damage, allowing BRDs to do more dmg + other drgs in the group as well since spears/bows count as piercing dmg. Bards support moves are just more up front and in your face with regards to what they do (Oh hey I got a song the restores mp noice)

Regardless a DPS rdm wouldn't really add much to the game, other man MAYBE repping a brd if they actually incorporated the use of Refresh/Haste as they did in XI...but with that they would need to beef up their dmg. Irregardless, a RDM in FFXIV will not be the same RDM you've had in the past if it is indeed implemented, with our current BRD job being the example of that, along with SMN. The current system just doesn't allow for a heavy support class OR a job that has been dubbed 'A Jack of all Trades'.