Originally Posted by
Obsidian
RDM has had every role it tried to play deliberately nerfed through the floor. Solo? Everything is now bind/gravity immune and/or has increased movement speed. Tank? Whoops, let's just floor the CE/VE on all their enmity-generating spells. Buffer? Nope, SCH has access to every enhancement spell RDM does except Refresh II and has much better access to Accession, as well as Perpetuance, and WHM has AoE effects by default. Nuker? Nope. Main healer? Nope.
Enfeebler? lol. Paralyze proc rate is unreliable (and likely floored on most things without an obscene amount of MND gear), Slow has no effect on anything whose regular attacks are considered TP moves or has any form of Regain, neither land on anything without sixteen Immunobreaks and get resisted out the ass when they do land, and BRD has a better Slow effect anyway. Blind? No comment necessary. Bio? Will never get casted because Dia will always be more useful. Dia? WHM gets Dia II, Dia III is only 5% more and certainly not worth an alliance slot. I'm running out of enfeebles here... Addle? See Blind. Gravity II? This spell is basically a slap in the face, and embodies all that is wrong with enfeebling.
What did RDM get from 76-99? Spontaneity? Awesome, I can instant-cast Raise on someone once every ten minutes. Saboteur? Legitimately useful, if only everything weren't immune to enfeebles, or you didn't have to guess which attempt to enfeeble was going to actually stick after your tenth Immunobreak. Gravity II? Literally lands on nothing. It could have been useful if it lacked the weight effect and was actually allowed to land and reduce evasion. Guess who got that effect? SMN and GEO. Gain spells? Yeah I have so much use for Gain-CHR/STR/DEX/VIT (omg solo melee u n00b). Temper? Again, could have been useful if I could cast it on other people, but alas, I'll just hit things for 0 twice 20% of the time instead of once. Guess who can do this? SMN and COR. Our new SP is literally Elemental Seal on a one hour cooldown, and enfeebling-specific. What the actual fuck.