Black Mage Raise Ability

[Lambdafish]

Yeah, let's tone RDM down because of 1 niche situation! That makes total sense. Let's nerf BLMs damage too since I saw a Fire 4 do 30k damage once. And let's also nerf SMNs Bahamut because it looks pretty cool.

Lol, you act like I was asking to remove the ability and cripple RDM as a whole, I asked for its mana cost to be looked at so that a raise takes, for example, just under half MP (as it should on any DPS role IMO)

Also... how is the difference between a guaranteed wipe and simple save a "niche situation"? (Aleph summed that up pretty well above)

Maybe, but you also still have to pay attention to the lore. Red mages are jacks of all trades, so it makes sense for us to have Verraise.

Lore should never be a justification for, or be thought of before mechanical imbalance, having said that though, I NEVER asked for verraise to be removed, or even changed mechanically, all I asked was for its mana cost to be looked at.

Totally agree with you about BLM, but I feel it could be better described as job identity than lore. BLM has a solid identity and a raise spell would go against that, RDM also has a solid identity, but certain aspects overstep the confines of the job system IMO (and can be easily fixed without touching the mechanics themselves I will reiterate)