Quote Originally Posted by Side-Eye View Post
in almost every situation, a live DPS class would contribute more damage than a healer.
God, I wish that were the case.

I tend to treat raising as a RDM the same way I do as a healer... mostly.

Do we need a specific person up for a certain mechanic? Okay, time to raise. Do we not? Cool, they can wait for a convenient time for me then.

I'd say the only big difference I find with raising as a RDM versus raising as a healer that I see would be my raise priority. As a healer in anything below Savage I'll raise dps first, tanks second and a cohealer last. This is because that should be the most damage efficient order. As a RDM/SMN I'll raise healers quicker since I'm less confident in random healers being able to solo heal anything for any length of time.