Quote Originally Posted by xxPheNoMeNa View Post
No my argument is, plenty of us at the top of level have repeatedly said the class is fine, casual players enjoy the class too and the class has seen no real balance changes since release.
You could have just said "Yes, it is" or even "Yes, it's part of my argument." Considering the rest of the argument is an appeal to authority and popularity.

When BLM had issues, notice how BLM players across pretty much all skill levels agreed that there were problems with the class and it prompted a change. Meanwhile with RDM there isn't a collective agreement about it (well, we agree that it has weak overall damage output but other people don't see the issue with that).
What I suppose we midcore RDM are saying is, it's kind of funny how of all the jobs in the game, it's the fourth dps slot that's expected to be able to hotswap jobs on the fly while everyone else stays the job they main. No NIN is expected to be able to also perform at the top levels of MNK, like a top RDM would also be expected to perform as a top SMN. (or I mean, just main SMN at this point; you get the same levels of meaningful progression outside of the bleeding edge world firsters, who even still probably use SMN instead.)