People say mobility doesn't matter, but I still think until the day SMN has to continously go in melee to deal damage, it makes no sense to compare them. And if mobility doesn't matter, a dancer and a dragoon should deal the same damage as well.

Using vercure as reason, too, is pretty lame, when do you even use vercure unless everybody is just dead? And at that point, might as well res people rather than try to play my little healer. Or just wipe it because if it got to the point where a rdm has to heal, the situation is just too tragic. And yeah, the res is powerful, but once you're done learning the fight you don't need it anymore. And then we go back like before, with RDM being used as resmage for prog and then tossed away cause not enough dps. The shiled is the only utility which can help anytime, and it has a pretty long cd anyway, you can only count on it so much.

I feel like it's the first time in a while SMN doesn't annhilate RDM in terms of dmg, all with the crazy mobility, and people are salty about it. And even still, every party seems to have at least 2 summoners while I barely see red mages now.