RDM? (Artbook image)

[Parodine]

I guess if I squint I can think of it as a rapier, but it just kind of looks like a stylized skinny longsword to me.

Would love a rapier class, regardless.

[Adeline]

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'.

[MomomiMomi]

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)

Then you agree that the dps role is the most fitting for a support job.

Regardless a DPS rdm wouldn't really add much to the game

The same can be said of every single job they will ever introduce.

[Meier]

I hope rdm isn't a dps :S Need a new healer ASAP

RDM always was a front line job, except for in FFXI.

[Adeline]

Then you agree that the dps role is the most fitting for a support job.



The same can be said of every single job they will ever introduce.

No I don't agree. I believe that they can go a different route if they decide to make RDM a healer with some support moves instead of just rehashing what they did with BRD. For example, in situations during T9 if your WHM is halfway decent, most whms can solo heal parts of that fight (golems, heavens fall with no add etc). This usually leaves the SCH in a position to dps while their fairy is healing along with the whm. The fairy itself is a huge support role, with Selene being of great use to push DPS phases.

Now let's reverse that and align RDM along the healer route, and give them decent heals (not the BEST but something), and give them some cool support moves as well, such as haste/refresh. While your other healer is primarily healing (either whm or sch can work TBH), the RDM is buffing the party in between heals if need be. The only issue I can see this maybe being an issue perhaps lack of AOE heals if you have a SCH alongside the RDM. Don't get me wrong, succor + shield+ Eos Regen can suffice for it, but finding a decent sch capable of these things is another story <_< And since past games, RDMs were never given aoe spells, I'm assuming they would be lacking in the department. The same thing can be said of their AOE dps rotation if they were actually implemented as a dps class...

[Adeline]

RDM always was a front line job, except for in FFXI.

And bards sang songs and didn't shoot bows, but here we are.

[Velox]

IIRC, some point during one of the betas, Yoshi-p said something about people requesting a job with haste and how he said we would never see it as a player skill because it would be impossible to balance it with the implemented battle system. If the effect is too weak, no one would use it (like Tri-disaster). If the effect was too strong, mobs would have to be adjusted to compensate (and that class/job would have a guaranteed spot in every party because of it).

[Exodus-E]

And bards sang songs and didn't shoot bows, but here we are.

To be fair:

A) Gilbert/Edward from FFIV was a Bard, yet he was able to equip bows (not the most optimal choice, but there you go)
B) FFXIV's version of the Bard job does sing songs; it's just that there aren't many to choose from (4 in total if we count Swiftsong)
C) You could argue that Archer and Bards both use an "string-based instrument" as their weapon, so it kind of fits to combine them

I do agree that Bards need more songs...and the Ranger job needs to be properly introduced later on.

Maybe for the upcoming expansion...?

[Sho86]

To be fair:

A) Gilbert/Edward from FFIV was a Bard, yet he was able to equip bows (not the most optimal choice, but there you go)

It was kinda to go-to weapon before the remakes for backline non-dps (still is? haven't follow DS remake). Rosa's main weapon were bows too. Not that I complain, I honestly wish my WHM could wield a bow like her.

[Adeline]

To be fair:

A) Gilbert/Edward from FFIV was a Bard, yet he was able to equip bows (not the most optimal choice, but there you go)
B) FFXIV's version of the Bard job does sing songs; it's just that there aren't many to choose from (4 in total if we count Swiftsong)
C) You could argue that Archer and Bards both use an "string-based instrument" as their weapon, so it kind of fits to combine them

I do agree that Bards need more songs...and the Ranger job needs to be properly introduced later on.

Maybe for the upcoming expansion...?

This is like when you push phases during t7, and your group is like "frack too much dps"

Too much dps.

Too much dps..Bottom line I'm trying to say is that there is going to be job imbalance as there was in FFXI if they keep spitting out all these DPS classes at us by throwing an idea out there for a job that COULD potentially be a healer if thought out correctly. I'm sure there are many groups atm potentially struggling to replace their current tanks/healers because they are all gonna be Naruto Ninjas once 2.4 hits. If they work on releasing DRK/RDM (?) as something OTHER than dps, it will be a better addition to the overall system, and I guess return the job populace to decent number.

Unless of course, you all want worse DPS ques, then be my guest lol.