Summoner Over-Nered (and A few other Problems)

[Dualgunner]

Red mage has dual cast as well. Which vastly outperforms Summoner's rez. A red mage can cast vercure on themselves then instantly cast rez.

Summoner has to either use a swiftcast or hard rez when a red mage can do it almost instantly

In the event someone dies, RDM is in one of two situations:

1) You just cast jolt/verfire/verstone and have dualcast up, in which case you can burn 25% of your MP pool and kerfuffle your flow to pop them back up. Sure it's easy and you can but damned if I'm maybe a bit salty because that means I have to start back from Impact/Jolt again and get my manas back in balance.

2) You do not have dualcast up, in which case you would swiftcast rez anyway because vercure is still a ~2 second cast time and swift is a faster goto.

If enough people have been getting shrekt that dualcast rez swiftcast rez is needed...well, smack the healers and kiss your MP pool goodbye lol

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I'm not against SMN getting sustain *and* a physick equivalent to vercure. There are a lot of advantages to having a RDM over a SMN and not losing a chunk of our dps when our unhealable pet dies is one of them.

The thing to realize about the dual cast raise is, let's say you pop cure for it. A 3600 mp spell to raise now needed a 600 mp preempt to it. RDM also has only 1 mp refresh at all, compared to SMN's (admittedly nerfed so I hear) aetherflow and Lucid.

RDM's real advantage is dualcast raise swiftcast raise. If it comes to that though that's ~7800 mp and some tears if Lucid isn't up. I've been in this position too often in Susan Extreme learning parties. And to add to the fun I also had healers demanding me to Mana Shift them after raising them as if I had MP for days.

Also I'm no expert of summoner but shouldn't you not be casting ruin 3 outside of dwt?