RDM the unwelcome DPS :(

[Zyneste]

Change Verraise into an ability: Instant cast, but on a 90-120s cooldown. You'd probably have to do this to SMN too if you want to maintain some level of control over how much DPS jobs can contribute to wipe prevention/recovery. The downside here is that it puts Swiftcast in an awkward position.

There is a growing sentiment among RDM for VerRaise to just be an ability. A friend suggested it should be a 2 minute cool down with 2 charges on it and I think thats fair. Casters can become recovery support, without the need to lose raw DPS themselves. Let healers keep the GCD raise. Swiftcast is already in an awkward position for SMN as its needed for their DPS rotation. RDM uses it as well as a backup proc fisher. Either using it on just raise will just cause issues with people clutching onto swiftcast the whole fight.

Personally, I just want to be done with it all. Give all casters a role skill raise or none of them. Give all casters a role skill raise or divide the caster role into Janitors (raisers) and Real Casters.

Raise in itself is learned at level 12 by a novice caster, an arcanist. Surely a Black Mage could grasp a similar concept. Its just a low level magic that is easy enough for someone familiar with the magical arts to learn, no more difficult than that same BLM having learned Erase in 4.x. Adding a cool down to it further shows its something that the role can do, but can't do often, unlike the healers who will keep their GCD raise.

RDM, SMN and BLM should share the same sort of dynamic as the other classes. RDM for low personal DPS, high RDPS, SMN for middle ground and BLM for high personal DPS. BLM should have an advantage after the two just because of its personal DPS nature. Thats it. Balance the other roles similarly. Let the Role bonus be what keeps the party formed into a standard comp of 2 healers, 2 tanks, 1 ranged, 1 caster, 1 melee, 1 free slot.

It's not just Verraise being spammable.
Overuse of Verraise is just as detrimental to a RDM and SMN, it just gives a slight boost from Dualcast.

The reason RDM does less damage than even SMN is because it has additional utility.
It has a viable cure spell.
It has a party wide buff (so additional rDPS).
And it's also the most mobile of the casters.

Again, vercure has its own costs. Look at PLD. Clemency does double the healing as Vercure at our ilevels and yet its tied for the top DPS slot amongst tanks. Why doesn't PLD suffer the Safety net tax for Clemency, as RDM does for Vercure?

RDPS and PDPS add up to balance the class. Even with Embolden, RDM is about 3% behind SMN and 13% behind BLM at the highest skill level.

Also again, RDM mobility comes and goes in windows. We have a different sort of mobility compared to BLM who have access to instantcast procs that they can hold onto, Xenoglossy and Triple cast.