Quote Originally Posted by Dualgunner View Post
In the event someone dies, RDM is in one of two situations:

1)
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.
Just small Fyi.

Raise on summoner and Verraise on Red Mage cost the same amount of Mp and they have the same mana pool. Both spells cost 25% of their Mp.

Summoner has two options in that same scenario.
1) Swiftcast Raise. Using a 60 second cooldown to make it near instant.
2) Hard casting Rez - Swift cast is down. The summoner is stuck immobile and doing nothing else until the 7 Second cast time is over. If the summoner moves, or get's hit the spell can be interrupted

Red Mage's raise is vastly superior, needing only to be dual cast. You can even cast it while mobile via slide casting. (Casting a spell around 80% then moving last second. Basically a one second raise. Just another way Red Mage makes Summoner obsolete.)

And for the most part, Red Mage spells cost very little Compared to summoners. Red Mage's most draining spell is 600 Mana. Summoner's can spend 2400 Mp just resummoning pets, or 1440 if they use Ruin 3 outside of dreadwyrm trance.