General Community Resistant to Healer Damage?

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Lulwut. RDM doesn't do lower DPS because of Vercure. Verraise is the DPS tax, and it's a dumb as hell one that needs to be canned.

Its 'taxed' less harshly because Summoners Raise is identical to Healer Raises, a 1 minute cooldown Swiftcast and then manual 7 - 10 second casts to get someone up.

Compared to Red Mage, who can Swiftcast a Raise every 5 seconds while also dealing damage (Or Healing if the Healers are the ones who went down) between those Raises.

Or to put it another way, a Red Mage can Raise both dead Tanks and a Dead Healer in the same time as it takes a Summoner to place a Raise on the first dead Tank. The Red Mage sacrifices only the Potency lost in a 2.5s, single GCD window.
Summoner, outside of Swiftcast, loses up to 4 GCDs worth of Potency.

If Red Mage had equal DPS to Black Mage while also being able to Raise half the Full Party in 10 seconds, why would you ever bring a Black Mage?
Same goes for Summoner vs Red Mage.

Constant, instant and low opportunity cost Raising is a VERY powerful tool. Not every run is a perfectly coordinated Static run.