I DON'T like Stormblood RDM

[Gaethan_Tessula]

Verraise should stay, but only be a balancing footnote so long as DPS-checks for progression Savage are tuned to make 2+ deaths into an automatic failure.

RDM needs more White Magic, not less, but tinted with a DPS angle. Reflect/Wall for a raid defensive + counterattack, Ver-Assize for healing+damage and a way to do away with or force a change to lucid as a role action (thing is so sad on BLM), give an oGCD heal that's strong enough to turn one healer healing GCD into a DPS GCD per cooldown (bring erase back, but buffed?).

RDM could use appreciable auto-attacks. This places them closer to being melee (maybe a cooldown could be made to allow ranged autos for a little bit, as a mechanics mitigator). Zipping out of range remains an option for dodging or movement, but the default place for RDM is up close (frankly, there's no BENEFIT to being able to go in an out that SUM or BLM or any physical ranged doesn't already have).

RDM deserves to be the support-DPS of the caster branch, with a healing and defensive streak to match their lore and legacy in the FF series. They DO need to be ~12-15% below BLM DPS, because BLM offers absolutely nothing else (except AoE sleep lol). RDM's problem in my eyes isn't that it's a bad DPS, it's that its support function is wrongly focused on Raise and a GCD Cure that's only relevant for soloing or salvaging hopeless parties in content with no enrage.