Quote Originally Posted by rina_inverse View Post
could someone explain the obsession/fascination with RDM? Ive never play XI, but from limited experience playing/using RDM in other titles, it seems.. half baked
It's unfinished business for those of us from the melee camp. The crowd that got urinated on by FFXI's playerbase because having the Red Mage spam cures, refresh and haste was more useful to them than letting the melee mage be a melee mage. The developers being scared to death of RDM was the other issue, but instead of doing what any other dev team would have done (read: nerf the hell out of the OP parts of the job) they just let it be. It shows even now because RDM is miles behind pretty much every other job in the game.

We don't want the mistakes of the past repeated, hence the suggestions. Some like the OP, some like the idea linked in my signature.