Gadwin said:
wow, that was actually convincing lol. oh and cos means because just in shortened.
but how do you think Libara got to 74 smn with rdm sub? maybe cos (hehe) hes got at his job? or just been lucky all the time.....
The unfortunate truth is, he may have been invited under the assumption he'd try to play healer of some sort. Too many people are afraid of kicking a party member or leaving a party and saying "I'm sorry, this just isn't working out".
Many people also give the benefit of the doubt and wouldn't not-invite someone based on a post regarding them possibly being bad, especially since they may have gotten better since the post about them being 'bad' was posted.
SMN is one of those jobs that take a lot of skill to pull off properly. They can't cure quite as well as WHM, nor are any of their buffs groundbreaking, but if the two are combined they can, for the most part, be worth the spot they take. The problem with this is that if they can't balance their abilities as well as main/backup heal, they're not doing near as much as they should be. SMN doesn't really have much to do for their job as it is, and really the only challenge is figuring out when to use a BP or when -not- to, because a lot of the time another buff tossed up may just not be worth the MP cost.
SMN/RDM
could work, just, not nearly as well as WHM in any way. /RDM being only good for the same things as /WHM but considerably less is just a way of the person weaseling out of possibly having more duties on them...when SMN don't get all that many duties to begin with. =/
Now he's gonna be stuck wasting 10seconds summoning Leviathan to do Spring Water to cure an status effects on the party because he can't access -na spells, in addition to the fact that taking 10s to cure a status effect is incredibly slow as is. If he were /WHM he could've tossed the -na effect in 1sec, thrown up Titan and given the entire party a ~200hp Stoneskin, and done all of that for roughly same MP cost.
I've never partied with the person, so I dunno if he's really bad or not. Though I do highly recommend he try getting WHM to 37, it'll make his job a lot easier. It may be slightly more expensive than /RDM, but being able to access -na spells, Erase, and the Teleport(<3) spells can be incredibly beneficial to the party and himself.