Quote Originally Posted by YojimboM View Post
I really wish this "RDM has low DPS" meme would end. Both BRD and DNC have lower (significantly lower in DNC's case) rDPS and personal DPS ceilings than RDM. If you are doing "low DPS" on RDM, then you are playing it incorrectly or poorly. Its DPS is fine for a utility caster. SMN and RDM are even equivalent in both rDPS and personal DPS right now in single-target fights.

Remember, when you pick RDM, you are picking a job designed to make the real DPS (melee DPS) in your party stronger. Do not expect to put out as much DPS as a BLM or MNK or SAM. That's not how the job has ever or will ever be intended to work. If you want to do those kind of personal DPS numbers then change your job. And yes, your value as an RDM is directly tied to how good the physical DPS in your group is, so if you're in a static with really bad physical melee and ranged DPS, then you might consider SMN or BLM instead if you must play a caster.
...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.