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Ah, the part of your post I can disagree with. Many an argument were made from parts such as these.

Blue Mage has nothing to do with Red Mage wanting to melee. Which is why we get so upset every time you bring it up, and, thus, is why we seem to be upset at Blue Mage itself (and kind of are). Red Mage should never equal Blue Mage, and I think everybody can accept that.

That doesn't mean they can't both be frontline mages. Their styles are just so radically different, you're practically comparing apples and oranges here.

The only thing we don't like about Blue Mage is the community just loves to shove it in to Red Mages' faces. "That's BLU; go lvl BLU," "Hey, doesn't BLU do that already? I'm not sure," "You can't do it, BLU does already; you'd be encroaching on their turf."

I would like to point out that Red Mage was here first, and, yet, hasn't actually seen many more updates than Blue Mage has. And, yet, people are all acting like we want to steal from them.

I'll have you know all we want is what was promised to us long before Blue Mages hit the concept art. And we've been wanting it for just as long, as well.

SE never lied about what the promised for RDM, RDM got updated, its role changed before the community and the community does not care for RDMs meleeing in thier PTs. Guess what? Your job is not alone in that issue.

Its really not SE's problem what the community does with a job. SE can not like it, they can try to influence us to do something else, but if they don't feel the job itself needs to change, then the community will use the jobs as they see fit and if the RDMs conform to what the community wants in pick up groups against IT++ or TP burns, then RDMs have no one but themselves to blame for being healers in PTs.

It is within your power to form your own PTs.
It is within your power to go to other camps.
It is within your power to seek like-minded players.
It is within your power to form small PTs.
It is NOT within your power to make us invite you for something we don't want you to do.

Some days I don't want to do what I get invited to do. I don't take the PTs that want me to do it because I don't have to.