Talk:ML's RDM 101 v2.0 Guide

Please see if you can condense this information into a single page guide rather than 3 pages. Being a Taru RDM for a very long time now, I find this guide to be full of misinformation. Taru has proven to be the absolute best RDM solo race. Avesta has shined above any other RDM in FFXI history, soloing the toughest NMs from Bune to Charybdis to Genbu. I have never really paid attention to the guides people try to add to FFXIclopedia. We have enforced the guide template at the top of articles such as this, but as I read through this, I can't help but feel.... dirty. There are many misconceptions in this guide, and I have only browsed through pieces of this, I have yet to read this thing in it's entirety. I can tell the person that wrote this tried not to be biased, but it was unavoidable. As the guide template states, "Information expressed in a guide is usually more opinion than fact and should be taken as such."

What would make an article like this a lot better would be proof to back up some of the claims made here. "Taru is a good choice if you prefer to be a backline caster." Comments like that should just be left out. Speak for yourself. Most RDMs become back line casters no matter what the race. I'd even go as far to say a Galka would be a back line caster before a Taru because of their small MP pool - they will be resting far more often than a Taru and would have even less time to pull out that sword. I also see this contradiction: "Mithra are identical to Humes" and then "The disadvantage of Taru is the lowest MND/VIT stats (equivalent to Mithra)". Mithra can't be identicle/equivalent to *one* race let alone *two*.

Be very very careful with this. Like I said, I've barely read through it and I'm finding tons of holes. --Ganiman 12:21, 5 June 2006 (PDT)