Quote Originally Posted by Azurarok View Post
I think they're terrified of melees losing a slot. MCH isn't allowed to have good numbers for the same reason, and I'm wondering if they wouldn't have nerfed PCT so quickly if it didn't result in 2 caster comps in FRU.
Which is extremely funny, considering their past-stated philosophy of "you should be able to clear any content with any combo of jobs in a standard 2T/2H/4DPS comp"... and aside from very few fringe cases, the philosophy is already true! I was in a static for LHW and a bit of CW tiers, and we had extremely off-meta compositions for our DPS - it varied for both tiers but the one consistency was that we only had a single actual melee - the other melee spot was taken up by RDM. We never had a problem in terms of DPS output once people had the mechanics down and weren't dying, so the argument of "we have to lobotomize RDM so people don't feel like they have to let it in as a 'fake' melee" is BS, especially considering that yes as many other people have already pointed out, a core component of RDM's whole thing is being "the melee caster".