RDM's Vercure should be removed or heavily nerfed

[aleph_null]

There are also 1,291 bard parses, versus machinist at 129. There are 1,084 ninjas versus 429 dragoons. Monk is a bit better off than DRG at 505, and SAM is at 806.

This data tells me that most people go with a physical specific comp with RDM, NIN, BRD, and SAM. But it's not RDM's fault, really--in fact if not for Embolden RDM would be swapped for DRG most likely. The comp is phys specific because of Trick Attack and BRD's 2% crit constantly, and that both mesh with the new heavyhitter being SAM. RDM is less taken for its raises for progression and more for its Embolden which more or less just makes RDM less "in the way".

Uh, no. I doubt you'd give up addle, apoc and raise for early progression, not to mention the inconvenience of having 3 melees in some fights. Considering how lenient the mechanics and enrage timers (except o4s I guess) of the current raid tier, most of the early clears aren't clean pulls. People just brute force through most of the mechanics in the first three floors, recover from deaths, even with healer LB3 in some cases, and still beat enrage. Being able to recover and survive, even without beating enrage, is still valuable for progression since you can learn mechanics faster than if you can't recover.

If we're talking about things like midas savage then yeah, having verraise won't help as much since you'd either fail mechanics that will wipe the entire group, or fail a dps check. I'm not going to repeat what I've said in the past few pages but I linked a reddit discussion about the ability to recover from multiple deaths in this raid tier, thanks to the weakness debuff changes and rdm verraise.