RDM and the Utility Tax

[Archwizard]

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I'm not sure I understand the point of your post.

Are you trying to say that the people claiming the tax exists are bad players making it up to explain their low DPS?
Or that groups who allow someone to join them on their RDM in the first place are bad players?
Or that people who attempt to justify allowing the tax to continue to exist are bad players...?

You kind of meandered a bit with the throwing of substance-less shade, I think literally everyone got hit by the splash in there without you ever making a point.

If they took away the spammable ress, i'd probably stop playing red mage. It is what makes red mage stand out, it's the one unique thing nobody else can do, and it's a thing that can easily save entire runs. I can't count how many times i saved a run single handed through the resses. This is what i like about red mage.

I agree that it helps RDM stand out, which is one of the reasons I'm against simply taking it away and making it a role action on a cooldown.
That and the age-old "Black Mages shouldn't be casting Raise" line.

As I said in the OP, the furthest I would go is either putting it on a charge system so we can still use it multiple times per fight but a free oGCD, so it costs us nothing to cast but still comes at a cost to our potential just to hold... or reducing (key word, not removing) the damage gap we have with BLMs but highlighting the penalty of casting Verraise, so that we are only taxed for using it.