Quote Originally Posted by Seriha View Post
Step out of Abyssea and see how long a 61 WHM can hold over RDM in endgame situations. This isn't much different than people saying anyone who subs WHM is as good a healer, as RDM's healing isn't all about raw curative power, but how Fast Cast helps them get cures out faster while debuffs keep damage from coming less often. A 61 WHM will not be landing Slow or Paralyze, nor have anywhere near the MP longevity or potential cure potency.
Considering most whm to any endgame outside of abyssea will always be 90+, this has little merit. Considering that, this is technically inaccurate ever since whm gained the passive trait Divine Benison. In conjunction with this passive, merits to lower recast on cure, and gear that gives additional -cure casing time they have actually reached the same casting speeds as rdm has with 1-4 line and near instance cast for V and VI. The only time my whm has run into MP efficiency issues is when curing more than 8 people without any other back up. Ever since /rdm came along with refresh and convert not to mention upwards of 5mp/tic worth of gear to swap into and gear that actually lowers the cost of cures (returns 5% of cured hp back to mp) even out of abyssea it isn't an issue to keep mp through longer fights. On top of this Whm also has Regen IV and Curaga I-V to return hp far more effectively.

The only time my rdm has really seemed to pull ahead is when a constant stream of cures needs to be sent out, but those situations only appeared if someone couldn't listen to a fight strategy and were being incompetent. Not to mention eventually it down-spirals due to the limited choices of cure/hp restorative spells available to rdm.