Shadowbringers RDM Wishlist

[Archwizard]

I would actually be entirely in favor of this because I got tired of being a rez mule. Sure I love being able to be supportive, mana shift, combat raise (which is a reason i loved smn too), and I've been wanting rdm since I started playing FFXIV because it was a job I loved from previous games.

I don't main RDM anymore, not because of boredom or dislike, because I simply love rdm through and through, I simply went back to ninja main as I've been since it was a thing and RDM is my next up. I was sick of being told repeatedly that I was only there for easy and fast rezing for the healers so "they could focus on DPS and healing" ...meanwhile as the DPS I would be worthless at 0 MP... it got frustrating.

Well, to be honest, that's... kind of the point. Our primary utility is lessening a healer's job, because we're designed to be a hybrid class.
And so long as our impotent on-GCD heal ain't giving us a damage buff in return, rezzing is the only tangible part of that hybridization with any value to a raid composition.

Presently a big part of the reasoning behind such a mentality is that, because the value of our utility is so high, our damage has been reduced to compensate; the exact flip of a BLM. You could attack our utility, but then not only would our healing abilities basically just be flavor, we'll still just be inferior DPS to a BLM so long as they're designed to have no utility of their own.
The real question becomes "How will we fare compared to SMN," and given their innate complexity, it wouldn't surprise me if the answer is "Not well on parses."

So maybe you're getting told "You're just here to rez people" now, but the alternative is being told "Swap to a better DPS job or we're kicking you."
That's just how competitive raid environments work -- no min-maxer likes a hybrid unless they do something someone else can't, which makes them functionally not a hybrid (just a separate role altogether).