Quote Originally Posted by Katie_Kitty View Post
Nice strawman. Once again nobody is saying RDM damage needs to be on par with BLM. What we're saying is that there is too much of an imbalance and saying "HURRR RED MAGE IDENTITY" is not going to cut it as a justification for keeping it bad.

I know the job's identity. I'm a life-long RDM fan. I preordered stormblood despite not planning on playing it right away just for the RDM minion. And I want to continue playing RDM as my main in high end content. That shouldn't mean I have to be a detriment to my party or, god forbid, be excluded from parties entirely. Nor does it mean I should have to deal with people telling me to "just play black mage bro".

At the end of the day this is an MMO. RDM is a DPS and that means it needs to be balanced to compete effectively with other DPS especially casters. That is the bottom line.

FFXI was also an MMO and red mage is still aceppted by parties and I'm not saying to not play red mage, I never did say that so you can stop putting words in my mouth.
But people are saying that they want to get rid of red mages utility, in favor of more damage. But red mage is, or never was about just doing pure DPS. You want to rack up those numbers, go be a black mage then

FFXIV will never reach pure balance and there is going to be favorite of other jobs. Just play the job you like. If people are not accepting you because you play red mage, maybe you need to find other groups.