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yeah i'm not even going to pretend to know how red mage plays now. I just find it funny at how much of a newb i was when re-reading some of these old posts.

how is it a troll when i'm asking a question that is making fun of how much of a newb i used to be? lol rated down for trolling myself i guess. Glad to see the forum atmosphere hasn't changed at least, i still get rated down no matter what i say :)

in all seriousness though how is rdm melee now? Honestly i always wanted to try it but, back in the day, it _was_ horrible.

Edited, Jan 10th 2012 7:53pm by Smurv

can't imagine how I would jump to the conclusion you are trying to troll here. Must be my imagination.

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Sarcasm tends to work better in text form when you have established a rapport with those you're communicating with. I recall who you are, and even played with you a few times, but very few here will. That said, an out of the blue comment like that certainly reeked more of a personal attack on melee enthusiasts, which is unfortunately too common.

Problem is just about any person can /SCH and not hurt your chances of actually killing the NM. With everyone bringing an alliance (and basically needing an alliance to proc white), you don't need to squeeze every last spell out of one party slot (like BLM/BRD in Abyssea). NMs only take about a party's worth to kill, the rest are largely for procing. BLM/SCH brings the same /SCH spells and a larger chunk of black magic procs. RDM is back to its paltry number of unique spells.

Don't take me wrong, I know how to and do contribute on my RDM. Just it's really not needed and most people don't care.

thats what i am talking about, im sorry if i missed your inside joke but to me ( a self proclaimed super troll of Zam) it seemed like a troll if it wasn't sorry for jumping to conclusions, if it was, get better material.

well melee is one of the two parts of RDM that is actually decent enough to be invited for, nuking is the other.

With the exception of the body slot (and rings earrings all DD's use) RDM has been put on melee gear in nearly every update since abyssea started. With the exception of Dusk+1 gloves I think my whole set is from either latter tiers of abyssea, or voidwatch. Most of it is on the AH to boot.

What do you mean 'usual good melee gear'? It took until what, level ~97 before we finally got out of dusk gloves? This is more of the same if you ask me.

Edited, Feb 14th 2012 8:33pm by Neisan

The only thing that matters about being a DD is being able to hit the ACC cap (check for RDM) hit the haste cap (check for RDM), and have a good attack value (check for RDM), then follow it up with a solid WS which needs ACC (check for RDM), ATK (check for RDM), and Stat Mods (check for RDM.)

Fact is RDM is capable of attaining all the same "levels" (ie. Usefulness) of gear that other single hand jobs can. We cap haste, acc, can break 600ATK (700 if you want to count Dia), and have access to large amounts of AGI, MND, DEX, STR (our primary WS stats). The only things RDM are missing that true DD's have are abilities like SATA, native DW, etc etc etc.

The only really sh*tty thing about RDM melee options is the limitations on daggers (which provide our best pre Emp WS), and the lack of a solid sword WS before Alamace. That is it.





Edited, Feb 15th 2012 12:52am by rdmcandie

The non-elemental characteristic of Req can be nice, you can really mow down slimes or... well that's all that it really came in handy against so far. But man did those slimes pay!

Edited, Feb 17th 2012 11:06am by tertoonetwothreefour