Then you might as well do it now then. SE isn't going to give Cure V anytime before SCH, the recent updates should of shown that.

Plus, it would seriously suck in the long run. Absolute quickest way to be turned back into WHM-1 with your most important piece of equipment being a light staff (or the Magian Staff) is to have Cure V natively. PT leaders see WHM's for

Cure V
Paralyna
Silena
Cursna
Stona
Viruna
Erase
Haste

And that's pretty much it. The only thing out of that list that RDM/WHM doesn't get is Cure V, and you can be 100% guaranteed that should you get it, your job will forever be spamming Cure on people.

It's a simple fact of all MMO's. Nobody wants to be the healer, the healers rarely get recognition for the outstanding job they do (and is the reason I always thank my healers). The job tends to be boring and you do the exact same things over and over again, especially in FFXI where the healing system is so simple and crude. Due to this PT / LS leaders will always have a hard time finding and keeping full time healers, so they'll scrounge and take from whatever they can. Right now their pretty much forced to use WHM's as their main healing source, us being RDM's means they rarely look at us for this duty. Should we get Cure V, PT/LS leaders will then turn to us as an alternative to WHM's for main healers. Now I didn't level RDM to be a WHM-1, that isn't my play style and won't ever be my play style. And I'm fairly positive most of my RDM brethren here feel the same, we don't mind assisting the healers and taking care of things, we we loath being forced into mind numbing cure spamming. PT/LS leaders don't care about this, all they want is healers for their events, thus if you have RDM leveled you ~WILL~ be a main healer, else its /break pearl at worst, at best you'll just get rude comments made and dirty looks from everyone else in your shell and be passed over for loot.