You're a mixed bag.

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This society is really tryin me, ain't no hide and seek
I hide to be far from anxiety, I need my space,
I need my privacy, I need some signs please,
You're all too loud you don't speak quietly, opinions violently.
Deft/Drop

we've been on a roll lately.

/smile

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This is hilarious.

From my post that you quoted:





Looks like you're the one that doesn't bother to read. I bolded it for you in case you needed help.

Once again and hopefully for the last time, my point isn't that there aren't specific use cases for RDM over WHM but that the generalization that it is "worse for EXP" is an over-simplification of the point and is frankly damaging to the server. People read it, take it as gospel, and choose to level a different job because of what some random person said on the forum. At least Harley gave a specific example (BRD not close enough to Dispel due to pulling) that COULD be an issue, even if it's one I've never experienced I can at least admit that it's plausible that EXP could be slowed down or a chain broken due to not having a RDM in that specific scenario.

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Therin / Erith

Fairy (ThoseGuys/LostParadise)
Cerberus (Resurgence)
Phoenix (Beyond/DynamisBums)
Shiva (Apathy)
Nasomi (DraconicBallad)

Nah my reading is fine, you're cherry picking situations while everyone else is speaking in general terms. Then when we say, that's incorrect, you double down and produce more cherry picked situations.

Try again.

Edit: About the discouraging others from playing jobs. I don't give a damn what job someone chooses to play and why they do so. I'm answering questions(I.E.Can you give me a reason as to why BLM and especially WHM will be slower leveling?) posted on here to the best of my ability. Sorry I don't go through and list the entirety of pros and cons for each job and each individual situation where one outshines the other. I prefer to speak in generalities that are true 95%+ of the time in the situations I mention.

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This society is really tryin me, ain't no hide and seek
I hide to be far from anxiety, I need my space,
I need my privacy, I need some signs please,
You're all too loud you don't speak quietly, opinions violently.
Deft/Drop

I think people should know going into job selection if their job sucks at certain things, especially if that certain thing is XP'ing. Other jobs are great at XP'ing and fairly shitty at most content at 75 (Great sword DRK comes to mind ).. It's how the game goes.

What I think is unfair is someone reading Therin's post and saying "I'm going to change everyone's mind, Therin's right!" and rolls WHM.. and then finds out that it sucks to fucking XP, and wishes someone had warned them that RDM is better for xp'ing with the meleeburn strategy that is used mostly.

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For any new players reading this... The first part about whm sucks for exp is so far removed from reality. Yes you are hearing from others here saying that's wrong, it's the vocal minority with bad perception of "This is best, everything else sucks"

Second part is accurate in that RDM is usually an easier sell in parties for multiple reason. Just because that is the case doesn't make WHM bad.

I love when people disagree and then literally go on to state why it’s true. WHM doesn’t suck for XP like BLM does, but the actual experience of XP’ing WHM? Yeah that sucks. Bad. For the exact reason you go on to state. A party leader only needs 5 more people, and only one of those spots is gonna be a RDM or WHM generally... and, again as you said, RDM is better and there’s not exactly a shortage really.

WHM is wildly useful later in the game. It’s not really all that needed to XP. It’s the reality of the meta we have. I apologize if that hurts your feelings.

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That escalated quickly!

I didn't? You think that by me saying RDM is better that makes WHM bad which is the thing I'm exactly arguing against. You are saying your opinion is that WHM exp is bad and horrible experience. I'm disagreeing with you saying it isn't. Not much to go from there but you think me disagreeing with you is somehow "hurting feelings". Does everyone who disagree with you in life feel like a personal attack?

If you only need one or the other... and one is better... the other is?????

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