The arms race between BLM and SMN

[MrKusakabe]

It's getting to the point I almost want them to drop Raise entirely from the Casters, thus allowing Summoner and Red Mage to simply be the Caster equivalent to Monk and Dragoon. They just can't seem to balance around it.

Why would they balance around Revive? I don't think so. By this logic, we can try to put the wrench on mobility, HP pools, critical hit chance etc. etc.
Also, it's a part of the White Magic branch we Red Mages study, so I hope they leave it where it is. We have a fine balance of offensive and supportive white magic as Red Mage, and this balance within the balance (read as: Black, White and Red magic) is what makes RDM so great design-wise - and I'd like to have this philosophy ingame, too. If at all, it should be removed from summoner as it does not make any sense to me.

I am just in general getting somewhat tired of this focus on damage only and then you wonder why the game loses its soul more and more like if you put too many fruits in the blender until you have a brown, generic smoothie without real accents in taste...

Sincerely,