Issues enjoying RDM

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It's a meme because its true. Just because it's not the lowest doesn't mean it's not "low," and in point of fact fight pending it actually is lowest in Eden Prime and Leviathan, and only higher than Dancer (which I'm sure we can agree is likewise undertuned) in the other two fights. Honestly the rest of the post isn't worth responding to because of this. If RDM's rDPS, which is the representation of its total contribution including Embolden, is among the lowest in the game it's not worth taking over its peers. It doesn't matter that it's not supposed to keep up in pDPS with Black Mage, right now it's just not competing at all.

RDM is equivalent to DNC and higher than BRD in e1s, higher than BRD and DNC in e2s, SIGNIFICANTLY higher than BRD and slightly lower than DNC in e3s, and higher than both DNC and BRD in e4s. I literally just looked at FFlogs again to confirm it. It's 3/4 for better/equivalent than both DNC and BRD. You should check the numbers again, "not worth responding to".

You take RDM when you're on farm because one of your ranged is better at it than BRD/MCH or SMN/BLM, or you have really good physical DPS. That's the only reason. Just like every single other job in the game. Someone could be super trash at MNK and play DRG instead to be worth more to their party. It's called job balance. And that's why RDM is perfectly fine how it is, it is not intended to be stronger than DNC or BRD (only equal) and why people can whine about RDM DPS forever and SE will never change it. Pick a different job.

...Nobody really expects RDM to be as strong as a BLM or MNK (which is overtuned) or SAM (which is undertuned). We know it as a support caster (or lack thereof) so it won't reach those personal DPS numbers, but RDM along with the rest of the ranged jobs are actually undertuned at the moment. It's not a meme, it's true. A BLM or MNK that messes up a fair bit or dies once or twice still does better than a RDM that plays perfectly, and that's unfair.

How is it unfair that jobs whose sole purpose revolves around them being perfectly executed to even be worth bringing do higher DPS more easily than a job that brings multiple utilities EVEN NOW in Shadowbringers after they neutered everything? And I guarantee you that a MNK or BLM that died twice will never do more DPS than an equally skilled RDM who hasn't died. There is no coming back from double weakness.