Quote Originally Posted by ViviAnimus View Post
As said before, the raise is very exceptional to use as a SMN and it isn't unique, at all. Traited virus is pretty useless as well. You only truly use it on T13 and the SCH does it. BLM apoc, manaward and manawall which are better than all the things SMN has because they are unique and actually useful because of it.
Remember when the purpose of have a DPS in the group was for them to, i don't know, DPS? Out of the three abilities you list, only one is actually good for the group while the others help the BLM survive. SMN has 3 abilities that actually help the group, Virus, Eye for Eye, and Raise. Sorry, Shadow Flare adds slow so that's 4. Can SCH do these two? Sure if you have one in the group. But SCH can also gives a 20% Magic Defense Buff for 20s so.... yea.

If you want to win the argument that BLM > SMN then just stick to DPS because all jobs have a little something extra they can bring to the table. WAR bring 10% slash resist debuff.