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I did what any sane person would've done: ignored it.

I've never understood why people care so much about such things... RDM isn't your girlfriend, there is no need to get so offended on its' behalf. I assure you that it's just as good at melee as it's going to be, all the sh*t talk on all the forums doesn't make it any less. If it's actually giving you problems in-game, there's two reasons: either you're using it in a situation where it's counterproductive (HNM, letting pt suffer at expense of meleeing, etc.), or you're playing with @#%^s. You can fix both pretty easily.



This is entirely subjective. Even with exact melee damage numbers in a completely controlled environment, how much weight do you give to the spells we cast, and the spells we can potentially cast?

This is why RDM's are constantly disappointed.. they focus on one aspect of the job and complain that they're not as good at it as they think they should be, disregarding everything else the job is capable of in their equations of balance (if they even consider it at all).

All in all I miss the days when everyone bitched about how overpowered RDM was.. if anything, it showed that they actually understood the job, if only a little.

Edited, Aug 30th 2011 12:01am by LyltiaofLakshmi

You mean essentially what Blue Mage is becoming?

This is largely the fault of ignorant people.

This misunderstand what parsing / theory crafting is.

Parsing is simply gathering data from a specific event / monster battle, it's not gospel and doesn't prove X vs Y ever. Human's are entirely too random and this game relies too much on human judgement for parsing to ever be remotely accurate in making Job X vs Job Y, or weapon X vs weapon Y type comparisons. Its just a good way to collect data about attack / accuracy / defense, which leads to the second part.

Theory / paper crafting is just taking the data accumulated from parses / analytical methods and using that to determine X possibility from situation Y. It can be used to determine what is possible, not what will actually happen. Theory crafting states that at 5% DA, 100 attacks will produce 105 swings and of those 99.75 [99] will hit. In actuality you can have 101, 110, 120, or 150 swings from 5% DA and of those 80, 100, or 150 that actually hit. It's all random numbers determined by entropy, you can't predict it.

And neither of these can possibly account for the human behind the keyboard, nor the other humans behind the other 17 keyboards, nor the other humans in the same vicinity behind their keyboards. The most important part of playing a MMO is the ~playing~ of the MMO, not the number crunching on excel spreadsheets. An interested attentive player on RDM/NIN will beat out a non-interested inattentive player on WAR/SAM, I've demonstrated this many times over again during the last half dozen years or so. And just because a player is attentive / interested on RDM/NIN does not guaranteed they'll be attentive / interested on WAR/SAM, all players are not created equal, we're not robots and we don't all react the same way. So someone who enjoys and is very good at doing hybrid RDM may not be so good at doing MNK, WAR, DRK, or *gasp* BLU, just do to shear boredom. This is why people need to find what works for them and go with it, provided their group accepts them and their successful in whatever endeavor they take on, and success is measured in enjoyment gained not loot earned. Which beings me to my final point before I duck out again.

The success of an MMO player is not measured in the quantity of *leet* loot obtained, the number of trophy's attained, nor the number of monsters felled. It's measured in the amount of enjoyment they had, we're playing a game after all. Deprive a player of enjoyment long enough and they'll leave, and that is bad for the game. This is not the *special snowflake* argument, as being different just to be different is pretty ignorant (unless someone's enjoyment is from being different, but now we're talking medical issues).

Edited, Aug 30th 2011 11:04am by saevellakshmi

Got on the test server.

Any requests on what to try?

Out of curiosity, I gave BLU a peek. For 32 MP, 1300+ without CA/Efflux is kinda silly. Did a little shy of 3500 with those. Definitely gonna be another decent update for BLU, and we have no idea what new gear or trials will bring.

Think the recast was closer to 15s, but I also had Wail up.

It would also reduce macc, I'm not too keen on it for stronger stuff at first glance, might not be that bad though but has anyone even quantified addle's -macc?

omg dusk item replacements wtf!