Quote Originally Posted by Jkap_Goat View Post
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.

Keep in mind when we talk about DPS balance we tall about RDPS which is more than just the amount of damage you put up on your own. RDM does not need to put up the same amount of personal DPS for it to contribute a comparable amount of rDPS, nor should it. What lots of people don't seem to understand is that rDPS is supposed to be damn near perfectly balanced because it represents the total amount of overall damage contribution by the class minus padding. If selfish jobs are blowing support jobs away so badly that their personal DPS alone makes their rDPS vastly vastly superior (keep in mind rDPS specifically excludes padding so in terms of actual performance the gap is even higher than rDPS suggests) then the gap is way way too high and balance is completely screwed. BLM's personal DPS alone should not put it 1500+ DPS above RDM in rDPS. Period.