[WishMaster3K]

What he's taken is a few situations, made them extreme, and use them as a point for an argument.

It's like saying that RDMs shouldn't have nukes because "OMFG dis one tiem dis guy he all leik solod Bune."

For your information, the majority of parties AREN'T TP burns. Hate to burst your bubble. As a PLD @ 70, I've seen None, and as a RDM, I've been in more 6k/hr pts than I care to remember, as opposed to the small majority of TP burns I've been that have been awesome.

The only reason that TP burns seem so popular, is because so many people rant and rave about how uber they are, theyre considered the norm.

For your information, me and many other RDMs who are concerned with constant efficiency, as opposed to "Pt hanging by a thread on yellow/orange HP 70% of the time" exp, we invite WHMs. You're ignorant if you think that WHMs don't have place in merit pts.

Zeiro highlighted that BLMs solo for more an hour than they could in a party, and they only get better as their merits makes them stronger and stronger. Hell, before ToA, I knew a BLM that soloed on Elementals in the sky. Before EXP bands. Before EXP Sanction. Before MAB gear became the "New-School of thought". And he got 6k/hr.

No THF uses SATA at the same time post 60 when they have independent usage of the abilities. The concept of a "First Voke" is archaic as soon as PLDs get all the AF gear. But you're making it seem as if they don't use EITHER SA or TA.

And WTH is wrong with you and your MNK comment? MNKS are among the most consistent DDs in the game. I tanked with two RNGs who would bust out 2k Sidewinders on Dhamels when they did Berserk, and I wouldn't lose hate, but a MNKs constant high damage and constant high WSs made the mob turn away from me more often than I'd care to relate back to.

SCH's getting a "Ghetto Convert" doesn't mean RDM is extinct. If you think it does, then you're not as good as a RDM as you'd like to think you are.

You're under the impression that there are SO MANY BRD and COR out there where a RDM will be LFG for days on end with his thumb in his ass.

You're under the impression that there will be SO MANY SCH that the population won't know what to do with all the mages, and there'll be a big ol cluster fuck of exp going on.

NewsFlash- if someone didn't like being a mage last weekend, they won't want to be a mage this weekend. RDM isn't going anywhere on the desirability list.