Quote Originally Posted by SaberMaxwell View Post
It's not even useful for that. If the enemy is targetable, you're gonna jolt/fire/stone into raise. If you relied on vercure into raise, then you're reducing the usefulness of the raise (ie, being able to keep some measure of DPS while raising).

True, but A) very rarely are you going to have swift up when someone dies because it is used as part of RDM's rotation and B) As stated, vercure is not what you'd use there unless the boss isn't targetable.

Most healers probably wouldn't notice all told. Look again at mine and Aikaal's average heal hit with that; 4.3k isn't really going to be noticeable in the grand scheme of things when healers will be raidwide healing nevertheless. The key thing to ask is: does this save the healer a healing GCD? If yes, then it's useful; if no, it's overheal.
It depends on the situation. But that's what the Red Mage is all about. Adapting to the situation. And it can be very useful if you get stuck with a bad healer in a Roulette. Or the odd dungeon run where the Healer dies and it would have been a wipe otherwise.

And I feel Vercure is much more useful then Physick on SMN. Talk about dead skill past ARR.