A new version update has landed on the peaks! (05/14/2014)Follow

Gessho Trust companion. Totally called it.

Also oh my god Maat.

As if one shantotto alter ego wasn't enough..

Hooray for more PUP job points fail!
Increased MP was kind of obvious, if useless for those who don't use a mage automaton.
And increased Heady Artifice effect? Yes, I want a minor increase in the effect of a lame 1hr!
So still no reason for me to farm those points on PUP.

At least having alter egos in WotG areas will be nice.

Choosing whether to log out on character select or main menu was certainly unexpected, though it's welcome.

Actually it does. SE has come out and said that getting a TH proc is some function of what your current TH is compared to the amount of TH gear that you are wearing. The hard caps are 8 on your gear and 12 total, so in order to reach 12 faster, you have to full time 8 in gear.

Curses, Squeenie'd again.

Silly RDM, you still have hope?! Very well, next update you shall get enhanced Resist Petrify and Barstatus Duration +1.

Don't know about the hard cap on procced TH - but the hard cap on gear is 8 now. So if I can get TH gloves I can have hard cap worn without having to get super duper hard to get (for me currently) belt, and without having to wear the gimpy TH knife, that's all.

Malarky.. RDM was never over buffed in the past. Players were taking advantage of the ability of the DoT/kite method, which any mage (and some non mage) job could do. Once people realized that mobs were solo-able, people flocked to RDM because that was what was "hot" at the moment.

RDM has always been limited. Even with the slight solo edge, that makes up for not having a place in a party outside of a refresh-*****.

Edited, May 17th 2014 12:49am by Almalieque

I've always said there were people who wanted to keep RDM down simply out of spite. Proof positive, I suppose.

Moving past the exploit-laden methods like pinning or cheese-tastic methods like an inventory of RR pins and keeping DoTs on Berith, the solo game was simply dreadfully time inefficient. Sure, it was nice not having to scrounge up friends for some off-hour activity if it could be taken solo, but I'd always taking murdering something in a couple minutes in a heartbeat over playing cat and mouse for an hour just to lose claim and have it get stolen or regen up a tick or two.

As for the jaded WHMs out there, well, not all of us wanted "your job" as it were, and such was why I'd always been so... persistent in fishing for buffs to steer the class away from that as primary duty. Never really happened, though. WHM just got their buffs while content shifted toward more AoE and status-heavy to basically guarantee a RDM couldn't keep up if Utsu couldn't be employed.

P.S. RDM Melee.

Didn't really help we had the people who really wanted to be playing SCH not jumping there. Or at least, that was their line in telling us to play BLU or something else. :(

Still makes me pine for how much more engaging the game could be if SE was more robust with job abilities and such for everyone. So much potential, but I guess too much spaghetti code and PS2 limitations.

More because at 41+ the job was in high demand as the poor man's BRD for MP regen (because you had a better chance of finding a needle in a haystack than finding a BRD to party with). The solo videos only encouraged people to do it on RDM.
Fixed the last sentence.

As I've repeatedly said in the past, the sensible thing to do would have been to nerf anything that facilitated DoT+kite strats. Sure, people wouldn't be able to solo things, but that's kind of the point; the stuff that was being solo'd was not intended to be solo'd in the first place.

That aside, I find it funny that solo's the devs never bothered to fix are FFXI's version of the "but u cant get <insert needed class fixes and adjustments> becuz plate/bubble/healz" WoW paladins used to hear from other players through vanilla and TBC.
I don't think XI's battle system would be able to handle more JAs. At least not the way I'm thinking of them (i.e: temporary stat boosts and stances).

Edited, May 18th 2014 5:24am by Ruisu

For my part, I don't hate RDMs (I mean, I am one!), but I definitely had some bad experiences with the people that played RDM. I still remember back when I was leveling DRG, being on a chocobo halfway across Merphitaud heading for a party in the Tree, and having the party leader send me an apologetic /tell saying that the party's RDM was going to quit if I came because "they don't party with DRGs".

That said, I'm happy enough with my RDM these days. There are certainly things that could be added to it, but I don't have any major complaints.

Edited, May 18th 2014 9:15am by MouserRDM

This isn't an issue with RDM as a job, but with a **** being a ****. Could have been a NIN, PLD, BRD, etc. that could have said it.