I tend to go drg/rdm for reives to get the most bayld. I don't have relic/emp/mythic, but I do have a dam good +HP set, and some nice (non-NNI unfortunately) gear.

When I team up with one of the best SMNs that I know, I still come out with more than he does, so I must be doing something right. I almost exclusively avoid killing the roots, in an attempt to make the fight last slightly longer, but I know the job well, I can maximise my own damage, my pet's damage, and my pet's curing. If I get agro from 2-3 mobs, I have a fairly good -PDT set (38%).

I can get a little annoyed when my HP drops just below 50% (of max geared HP) so I hit barwhatever macro to trigger healing breath, just as someone cures me, or a whispering wind hits. Thus I wasted 6 MP and a little time, but not to worry, it's not going to affect my overall score all that much.

The point is, I have just about all jobs at 99, and 9-10 of them are geared well enough to use properly. What would be stupid of me is to go to rieves on 1 of them, find that it sucks due to whatever reason (in this case smn spamming cures to everyone ever 45 seconds) and continue to use that job but whinge about the job that's spoiling my reward.

The better option by far is to find a better job to use for reives. And if that means swapping to SMN, then so be it. If you haven't already unlocked smn for whatever reason, all the better. Then you'll find out that it's by far the hardest/most long-winded job to unlock; it's the hardest/most longwinded job to skill up; it's never really wanted for most events, except for campaign, WoE and now reives. What you wouldn't see unfortunately, is the pain that many of us went through trying to get to 75 back in the days when everyone wanted us to help them to kill Kirin, but they weren't prepared to invite us to an exp party to hit 75.

And once you get smn to 99 and maybe get it's skill capped, you can join the rest of us waiting for avatars, updates/upgrades that we keep getting promised but never see.