I DON'T like Stormblood RDM

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What's fun and what isn't is a subjective matter. Many classes can lead their party to a clear by good DPS, at the moment for example Monk. But salvaging a run like that is something only red mage can do and nobody else. For me, these moments are a lot of fun, i can feel a sense of accomplishment. The same sense of accomplishment as i felt when clearing the hardcore content back in the day when i still did it.

Yes, the gap to BLM is too large, but don't call for a removal of Verraise because the "real supposed" size of the gap is hard to determine. I'm sure there are many other people like me who enjoy red mage exactly because of verraise, if it's taken away, there is no place to go for those people. If you are only interested in DPS and savage clears, you have lots of options available. So i'd rather have red mage be subpar in savage than having them remove verraise.

Again, i don't think every job has to perform the same in every type of content. There are enough jobs for some of them to be better at certain type of content and worse at others.

believe it or not SMN and, 2 Healers can also salvage a run though not as efficiently as a RDM. RDM isn’t the ONLY job that can salvage runs. There have been runs salvaged without a RDM. This is a big over-exaggeration. Thing is, RDM not being able to clear the early prog dps checks in the higher fights without ridiculous amounts of min maxing because nobody in the party can afford to die and you still need to put out damage that’s clearly above your weight class isn’t good design (would love to see a week 1 Titan kill with a RDM and no DRG, MNK, or BLM). Seriously, week 1 Titan when nobody is allowed to die felt horrible on RDM. RDM also has this stigma of being repped out for SMN and now BLM once you’re ready to clear which is stupid as it's the prog job getting swapped out before crossing the finish line because it's underperforming that much in rdps contribution.

I’m calling for the removal of the Verraise because I’ve been playing this job for 2 years now and only once did they get it right, the last even numbered patch of SB and immediately messed it up the first chance they got to do something interesting with RDM. What RDM got was lower dps than pretty much everyone else, the same tired rotation, and no new utility to really help us feel like we were in line with DNC and NIN. Verraise needs to go, you can feel however you want about it as it’s your right to but they’ve shown that they don’t know how to balance the skill and seem to view it as some sort of “One size fits all raid utility”

We should just let it go, RDMs want more rdps because we’re a dps. raising isn’t even the responsibility of a dps and it never was for SMN, why does it have to be at the forefront of RDM's viability. I’m sure there are some RDM that are excited for people to die with the hopes of satisfy his hero complex but, I think the large majority want contribute to our team’s success beyond picking up corpse off the floor.