When I came back to the game after abandoning the smoldering ashes of WoW,.. I had my old Ninja to play from ARR,.. that didn't feel right.. played several other jobs and fell in love with the Red Mage. Played my Red Mage all the way to ShadowBringers and up to level 80. But while I love the mythos and feel and play of my Red Mage, I no longer feel like I can play it consistently. Not when my Dancer, arguable the lowest DPS role, can do quite a bit more DPS than my Red Mage. They both have comparable gear and I put the same effort into them both, but my Red falls behind. I'm not saying RDM needs to be on par with black mage by any means, but they should NOT be taxed so much for having a heal that is almost as weak as my Dancer's heal, and a Raise that is only situationally used. Right now I play my RDM from time to time is all, and I MISS it! but when I can switch to my 80 BLM and put in half the effort (I suck at BLM by the way) and get twice the results as my RDM .. well you get the picture.. /rantoff thanks for the ear..