Please nerf RDM!

[Rhyn]

RDM might be performing well against the other casters atm, but it is in fact the only caster that is doing just fine. BLM has no utility and terrible mobility. It should be doing SAM damage (or better), but it doesn't currently. SMN has a whole mess of problems as I understand it and is underperforming atm because it got bungled up in 4.0. Once the fixes come in for the these jobs (and others like DRG, MCH etc), you'll see that RDM is just fine. Sure RDM can res, but so can SMN. You overrestimate how much ressing a RDM can do before he runs out of mana. Usually it functions just like SMN res. You swiftcast raise and move on with your life. RDM don't heal in any serious content. If he does, you are failing anyway.

A lot of the whining about RDM comes from the fact that it's easy and intuitive to play, which lets average players do really well with it, and as I assume you, dear reader, isn't parsing in the 99th percentile on fflogs where all jobs are played at their peak performance. This means in dungeons and such, red mage will seem to be overpowered to your average BLM or SMN that haven't perfected their rotation etc.

As has been mentioned, Embolden is not a great buff. 0.375% ~ 0.75% increased raid dmg if used on cooldown? That's equal to or very slightly better than MNKs brotherhood, a job which is considered to have minimal utility and should have high damage.

My basis is having WAR, RDM, DRG and AST at i309+ (with BLM on the way, 60+).