Guys it is raise not reraise. Meaning you only cast on targets not yourself. And considering this game most content starts @ 20, that is my they increased the spead. WOw and Bethesda explained this well, You got to keep people hooked in the early levels. As people tend to quit after getting level 10. Like bliz re did most of the starting zones in cata. To make them more like the death knight starting area. Unlike ffxi we do not have city mission or ranks. And most the content is 20+. So they figured to help keep new players hooked just increase the speed a bit. Pretty much by comparrison. 1-20 in ffxiv is = to 1-10 in ffxi.

Also as I stated, ffxi had a ton of raise things. From earings to scrolls to other items. Ranging from 1-50 and higher. This was to help the ease of leveling not be so time consuming (in a bad way).
Also in retro spec, once people figured out the formulars of leveling can get 1-75 in a day.

Pretty much raise is an insentive to group at 14. Since people do not group up till 48/49 to kill raptors.

Also unlike most mmo ingeneral. We have 2 tier penalty. we have a basic weakness, but if we die while weakend we get the second teir. Any death after that while under brink of death get durability loss on their gear.

This makes crafters importent since they will need to repair gear a lot more.

Most people solo at 14 so this doesn't make leveling easy since you can't raise yourself if K'Oed. But this does get people to help out others.

With having multiple raises on the action bar. If this is uncorrect I'm sorry. But from my experiance in ffxi. Raise had their own cd. Meaning with mp, you can cast every raise to raise any player. Instead of waiting on CD for raise.

Also do understand that with physical level being removed, stats numbers will decrease since they plan on decreasing the amount of stat points you get to allocate. So you may not have the "2k hp" after the change.

Also do realise that mmo change, rules change. And they are adding content. But also soon or later we will have a ps3 launch, those players would have to play catch up. With the way leveling is it will be more fun for the,. Since they will get to see a good portion of content rahter quickly. Which will keep them playing.