Raising Summoners and Summoners not raising, venting

I can safely say when I'm playing Second Class Mage that I forget I have access to raise.

When I'm ressed, nine times out of ten I have to wait for my MP to tick high enough before I can actually Swift res someone. I think as a Summoner it should be ideal to carry an MP pot to be able to res but that's besides the point since most people don't. If I don't have such an item then I'm stuck waiting ten - fifteen seconds doing nothing.

I don't mind raising, I'll gladly raise people swiftcasted or otherwise if it can possibly prevent a wipe.

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Originally Posted by LDR

tfw my second run of A7 my most used skill as SMN was raise

i forced that party through to avoid a reset

i feel like those who are SMN but also play healers are more inclinded to use SMN rez since you gain this little back voice of [HEAL THAT DAMAGE, RAISE THAT PERSON, HEAL HEAL oh wait]

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A7 (M2) was def. more fun when none of us knew you had to run from the drill

General raise priority:
1)Other healer
2)Off tank
3)smn(if others are dead)/brd/mch(mp for multiple deaths)
4) All other dps

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Originally Posted by bounddreamer

What I hate is raising a summoner only to see them spend their Swiftcast on an egi then use their aether flow to start dpsing. It's like, there's three dps dead, the other healer may be about to die or is out of mp, and....you wot m8?

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If there's that many dead, it wouldn't even be worth a healer LB, let alone a single raise. This games Exs and raids leave little room for error. Not to mention if there's that many dead, I'd start being more concerned with the party's healer capabilities...

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Originally Posted by LordPhantomhive

Not to mention if there's that many dead, I'd start being more concerned with the party's healer capabilities...

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I'm gonna point out that the healer's job is not to keep you alive, it's to keep you in good shape. Staying alive is everyone own damn job.

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Originally Posted by Keldion

Don't expect summoners to be capable of much after they are resurrected. If they have no Aetherflow ready after getting back on their feet, then they will be little more than a warm body while waiting for MP ticks to summon an Egi or to resurrect other players.

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This. Was farming BisEX before I got that bird, and IMMEDIATELY when I got up, everyone started screaming at me to res. Still had Aetherflow on CD for about 10 seconds and after popping it and ressing someone kindly reminded everyone that SMN's res uses MP too. =-=;