Some views on DPS balance that everyone cares about

[Kabooa]

It would disappear if Summoner was at a more 'fair' spot of being below Black Mage and Samurai in performance. You don't see a lot of people lately complaining that Red Mage has Raise, do you? It's perfectly fine for a DPS to own it, especially if it fits thematically.
Damage buffs even if "bottom line" is still utility by definition. There is no exceptions to that, and that is what the general idea is for utility for the playerbase.

Like Zerathor said, I can't really control what people think as well. I'm in favor of keeping Raise and I see no issue in keeping it, and you are more than entitled to think otherwise.

Hey, that's fair.

See, the thing is I'd also be happy with just giving Black mage a thing to help the party (more specifically the healers).

I outlined it elsewhere, but it only has to do two of three things.

1. Shift burden from the healer
2. Reduce the relative cost of time
3. Reduce the relative cost of MP

Mana shift for example fulfills 1 and 3. Raise does 1, 2, 3.

You could expand it so it also grants the target a Swiftcast charge and it covers 1,2,3, and set it at an appropriately long cooldown (90-180s).

But no, we'll just get another 20 potency buff and we'll be back to this point in 6 months when everyone else gets the circular potency buff.

Edit: And just in case it wasn't obvious, that's a quip and disapproval of how it was handled in stormblood.