LOL Everytime you post a counter-argument lately you act as if your experience in the game is the definitive one. I guess that's common around here, but you in particular bug me.
You only use 2 Raises so why do you need 4? Really? You can't think of any reasons? You can't think outside your experience enough to come up with a single reason another completely different and unique individual may have a reason to need more in a completely different situation than you? Really?
Again, I ask you, sir (as I did when you said you had no trouble managing MP in your raids) how many mages do you bring? Because if it's the growing standard of 3-4 then no shit, sherlock, that's 6-8 Raises (not counting what your non-mages might have equipped) - and if it's just 1 mage, then I apologize and envy your awesome majesty of mage playing.