Hello, I am returning to FFXI now after a year or so long break. The last time I played was a few months before the first abyssea expansion. I was a SCH/DNC/BRD/NIN with SCH main, but this time I'm going to start over as a new char and take up RDM as my main and I have a few questions.
How useful is RDM now? I haven't seen very many posts about this issue, but a lot of my friends tell me WHM is a better healer, everything is immune to debuffs, and RDM melee/nuking didn't improve that much. Plus with atma, no one cares about RDM's unlimited mp because WHM has that too, and everyone gets refresh from sub + 15/tick refresh from Atma.
Is it a bad choice for me to level RDM and main it, even though I love it? Or is this job not very good now and I'd be wasting my time? I like hybrids, and support/mage type classes, I despise specialized classes like WHM so that's a big no. What are my options if RDM isn't viable anymore?
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My first answer is, if you love the job, play it ... regardless of what everyone else thinks!
But in all honesty, when we go to the original Aby zones (Visions and Scars areas), I typically take my rdm because my enfeebles do come in handy and Cure IV is enough because the NMs are so easy. Plus I have 2 procs for each element (I know not the 4 procs that I have with BLM). During the leveling process and even if you do any old school type events outside of Aby, RDM is still very useful.
When we go to Heroes zones, I am either the WHM for healing or the BLM for staggers, so RDM does not see too much activity in these zones.
I too love the job and play it whenever I can.
But in all honesty, when we go to the original Aby zones (Visions and Scars areas), I typically take my rdm because my enfeebles do come in handy and Cure IV is enough because the NMs are so easy. Plus I have 2 procs for each element (I know not the 4 procs that I have with BLM). During the leveling process and even if you do any old school type events outside of Aby, RDM is still very useful.
When we go to Heroes zones, I am either the WHM for healing or the BLM for staggers, so RDM does not see too much activity in these zones.
I too love the job and play it whenever I can.
~Elspetta~
99 BLM WHM RDM SCH SMN BRD THF DNC WAR
Phoenix
~~Remember the Titans~~
99 BLM WHM RDM SCH SMN BRD THF DNC WAR
Phoenix
~~Remember the Titans~~
It's not so much that nuking, meleeing, and debuffing didn't improve (they did and could be argued still competitive for a party slot), it's that we can't proc enough staggers. Honestly, that's the only reason people don't want RDM.
If you want a hybrid class solely for a hybrid class, and care about being "wanted" (tentative to current game state), try BLU instead. If you like RDM, then just be a RDM.
If you want a hybrid class solely for a hybrid class, and care about being "wanted" (tentative to current game state), try BLU instead. If you like RDM, then just be a RDM.
"And I'm prepared to passionately argue this point until nothing makes sense anymore. If that doesn't work, then the hours upon hours of whining will." -Red Mage Statscowski
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Thanks for the replies ^-^ I decided to stick with RDM and got level90. Loving RDM, loving abyssea. RDM is very fun! I don't feel that useless, but I sometimes laugh at how it'd take basically 3-4 of me or 3-4 SCH's to equal ONE whm's healing power :/ It really feels like this game has 7 1/2 jobs and not the 20 listed(WHM THF WAR BLU BLM NIN MNK and BLM/BRD being the 1/2), I miss how class balance was before abyssea. Oh well....
ShiyoKozuki wrote:
I miss how class balance was before abyssea. Oh well....
It was never balanced. Just different jobs are more in demand now than before. And I'm sure it will change again if there is a life after abyssea.
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