Quote Originally Posted by Myon88 View Post
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Everlasting Flight is a passive buff that actually do more healing than any red mage vercure will do in an 8-man raid scenario since the red mage has to stop DPS entirely to use their skill while summoner can use their as just part of summoning Phoenix. That healing may or may not ever be valuable depending on the phase its used in, but it's a raid utility skill that exists outside of having any impact on the ability of the summoner to do damage.

Verraise is in a similar situation (yes, I've done Eden savage) when you're in progression, you can be smart and just know you might need to save swiftcast to use resurrection than use it as a DPS skill. Yes, that's not optimal usage of swiftcast, but we all know that caster raises are primarily for progression not for farming.

I haven't looked into embolden vs devotion in logs yet, so only the comparison is from the fact that devotion buffs all damage while embolden only buffs physical. Though if there's massive difference between the two this might be a reason to have summoners slightly higher.