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They are minor enfeeblers and a BLM or WHM can replace them...
Right now it would only make me happy to say, Sir Personperson, you are an assmaster, I would like to point something out, a RDM's enfeebling score is MUCH higher then a BLM or a WHM.(Infact,correct me if Im wrong, but a RDM has a A+ in enfeebling, whilst his special mage breathern are at a C)
Im pre-41, but the thing is that if I don't enfeeble the mob, then I get yelled at like a red-headed stepchild. Just for the simple fact that my Enfeebs are going to stick alot better then yours, if you and I at matched lvls, were to cast the same enfeebs(for sake of simplicity, we'll go with 3 mnd enfeebs, paralyze, slow, and silence), if you cast the same spell about 3 times, and on the final one it stuck, I could probally cast it 2 times and get it to stick, and considering that MP wasted on enfeebs is more that could go to cures, I win.
I bet that of all the people that I've partied with, no one will complain about my use of enfeebs, lets take it, the DD love Dia because that makes their hits strike harder, the Wars/Plds and the WHM's love Bio because it makes them take less dmg and the WHM expends less MP to heal them, this makes a fast, and happy party.
But to say that a RDM's job is ONLY refresh, that constitutes a swift kick in the crotch or the chest, depending on your gender.
Don't get me wrong,(yes Im going to sound like a broken record here), refresh, even on paper, sounds like an awesome and truly beautiful ability, but to say that Refresh is the only thing Im going to be good for post-41, and that refresh is all Im worth, and that I can suck so bad It makes a ***** want to take lessons, but I keep up a refresh cycle that works parties will invite me. That just makes me want to quit the job right there.
Everyone knows that their are jobs that are only good for one thing, i.e the paladin is no dmg dealer by any means, so essentially they are only good for tanking, Thfs are only good at dealing dmg because of SATA(on a side note, is this also refered to as Fuidama?) ect ect, not worth listing all of them.
But a RDM is a mix of everything and anything, with blink/stoneskin/phalanx we could, if **** hit the fan, tank for a couple turns, we melee, so thats adding how much ever minor dmg, but dmg is dmg, so whose complaining?We have one of the, if not the highest, score in buffing, we are the best Debuffers, no fighting that we are only second rate nukers, but I dont think anybody is going to ***** if we burst of a SC and it tacks on more dmg. I know in my parties that if I hit a mob for an extra 50-70 dmg after bursting of a SC, I dont get "omg you n00b, y did u nuke? Rdm dont nuke, blms do uber n00b", Infact I dont get anything at all, but then again Im operating in the background, and just hearing the "That went fast" or "Good job guys. /clap"
is satisfaction enough.
I guess after all of this rant, I can only say that if Im only going to be good for Refresh, then the whm are only going to be good for healing, because who invites a WHM for nuking or debuffing, I can sure as hell say that no one is EVER going to invite a WHM and encourage them to melee. If my only good spell is Refresh, then your only good spell is Cure II, I dont give a rough **** if you can take off one of my status ailments or pump me up, hell I can do that myself, we get buffers the same lvl you do, you just get the -ra form of it. As long as Im still alive at the end of the fight.
Now I'd like to excuse myself for being an *******, Im not normally like this, but your writing style REALLY ticked me off.
/em watch's karma go down that black hole.