Quote Originally Posted by Mansion View Post
The thing is, if you want to keep this, you need a balance.
I agree with you, I don't think chain-raising is broken support because it's auto-balanced by mana cost and mana recovery. Yet, that's it, there's not much more to RDM's support as Embolden is not a golden buff.
But RDM's DPS is quite low (like other "support" oriented jobs, SMN being the exception), for instance having a Machinist (clunky as it is) is currently a better option than a RDM. You have a strong mitigation tool every minute, MP and TP recovery, a decent Vuln up on the target that everyone can benefit from, and a higher personal DPS.

So for me there's no reason to keep RDM as it is. Either keep a lower side pDPS but great raid support tools, or higher pDPS and lesser support.
I'd say keep it like it is if I had to choose between RDM awesome support or more dps, id like more dps sure, but not at the cost of losing what makes RDM great, but then again I always enjoyed support dps jobs like brd and rdm, that's my fav playstyle.