its not about whether SMN has Resurrection or not

[Supersnow845]

when you say 'pick', you mean as in pick them as a job to play, or as a party member?

if its the former: why do some ppl play dnc, some play brd, some play mch on ranged role? like, none of them has raise, but all of them have players. mch is the hardest hitting ranged, dnc & brd have no raise but ppl still pick them. see? the fact is, 'raise' is not the only reason ppl pick a job to play. every job has a different playstyle, aesthetics, identity, etc. if they have no raise, ppl will still pick them because of their unique playstyles/aesthetics/identities.

if its the latter: again, non mch ranged and non sam melee are still picked anyway as party members even though they dont have raise. so why would ppl refuse to recruit rdm & smn simply because they have no raise? makes no sense.

The casters do have the unique problem that you are only “supposed” to bring 1 of them BLM (and probably PIC) do so much more damage than RDM/SMN what are they really doing if they don’t have a rezz

Like MCH vs DNC/BRD is a tiny difference and they bring decently similar utility

The casters are uniquely hampered by how unbalanced they are because of how taxed rezz is but even without it buffing damage is messy because of how god damn easy SMN is

[Ianmaru]

The casters do have the unique problem that you are only “supposed” to bring 1 of them BLM (and probably PIC) do so much more damage than RDM/SMN what are they really doing if they don’t have a rezz

Like MCH vs DNC/BRD is a tiny difference and they bring decently similar utility

The casters are uniquely hampered by how unbalanced they are because of how taxed rezz is but even without it buffing damage is messy because of how god damn easy SMN is

correct. all of it. it should have gone without saying that when RDM & SMN get their rezz nerfed, their rezz tax also gets smaller which means their dps output gets buffed. but apparently ppl forget its a thing and thinking that if they lose the raise, they dont get anything in return.

and dont get me started on how broken the current SMN is. we cant have a good caster DPS output balance as long as one of the job is significantly easier than the other two.