Please nerf RDM!

[Core1019]

So, I believe the Live Letter just confirmed no changes to RDM, which is absolute bs IMO

[Rawrz]

So, I believe the Live Letter just confirmed no changes to RDM, which is absolute bs IMO

Nerfing Vercure because of blms and SMNs crying that Rdm can't have potent utility and high dps. Well you're getting your wish.

[IchiExorz]

So, I believe the Live Letter just confirmed no changes to RDM, which is absolute bs IMO

Same with SAM. And that's how it should be really.

Just the other classes should be brought up to par with these 2. Which is what they seem to be trying to do.

[Zojha]

So, I believe the Live Letter just confirmed no changes to RDM, which is absolute bs IMO

Also:

A5. One of the main concepts of FFXIV is that “when playing a job, you experience the uniqueness of that job.”
Due to this, there is a difference in difficulty between the jobs, and it used to be that higher difficulty meant more DPS. We will be scaling down this factor.

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...13#post4303113

TL;DR: Don't bother playing more difficult jobs. You don't get rewarded with higher performance, you only get more opportunities to mess up and perform worse as a result.

[Fortune_Cookie]

Also:

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...13#post4303113

TL;DR: Don't bother playing more difficult jobs. You don't get rewarded with higher performance, you only get more opportunities to mess up and perform worse as a result.

Aye, pretty disheartening to read that kind of statement. Can always hope that it's pure spin...

[Wavaryen]

Q5. It was explained that in Patch 4.0 the focus was to reduce the large DPS disparity, but certain jobs feel more reliant on player skill than others. Are certain jobs intended to maintain that difference?

A5. One of the main concepts of FFXIV is that “when playing a job, you experience the uniqueness of that job.”
Due to this, there is a difference in difficulty between the jobs, and it used to be that higher difficulty meant more DPS. We will be scaling down this fact


Good logic to me, Glad the devs feel like this.

Easier and harder should not matter on how well a class does. It is about play style. Some people enjoy tougher classes. Some people don't. Glad the Devs at least understand this common sense.

[Oscura]

Also:

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...13#post4303113

TL;DR: Don't bother playing more difficult jobs. You don't get rewarded with higher performance, you only get more opportunities to mess up and perform worse as a result.

I actually started laughing.

It's a good thing I started playing Red Mage after all.

Time to keep Dragoon in the trash too.

[Vulcwen]

TL;DR: Don't bother playing more difficult jobs. You don't get rewarded with higher performance, you only get more opportunities to mess up and perform worse as a result.

Considering their earlier balance statements aren't met at all, I'd not trust that phrase either. Perhaps they'll scale up the inverse :P

[Kacho_Nacho]

So, I believe the Live Letter just confirmed no changes to RDM, which is absolute bs IMO

No. Let me link it the statements.

RE: DPS & Skill

and

RE: Vercure

If you read the Yoshi-san's statements, he doesn't say Red Mage will not be adjusted. He's stating two things.


The first is the complexity of a job is part of the unique flavor of that job. SE is moving away from higher difficulty meaning higher dps.

The second is that different jobs are different and we should stop trying to make all jobs the same.

Neither of these statements tell us anything about whether red mage will be nerfed or buffed.

TL;DR: Don't bother playing more difficult jobs. You don't get rewarded with higher performance, you only get more opportunities to mess up and perform worse as a result.

Nah, it's saying you should pay a job because you enjoy that job.

[Kling-Klang]

I already showed the glitch in another thread but here it is again:

This is how you get top fflogs and out dps blm:

You can get into your melee combo much faster like this. You shit out dps.
Imbalance numbers with which you can do this are
52, 53, 54
if you cant do it this early you do it with
65, 66, 67, 68, 69

Japanese dps forum knows about it already, so I assume it will get fixed before omega savage. Most here dont seem to know about it so they assume rdm is OP when the logs and parsers of top rdm are due to this.

Since you can get into melee(+ your finisher) earlier, you can get way more dps out in a 8+min fight than you usually should be able to. With this it is possible to compete with a BLM dps wise.
It is really easy to get the 52-54 value in an opener, after that you need some practice but the ones who put in the work to learn this can do it in a fight rather consistently.