Vercure is not part of your rotation.

[Kabooa]

if any dps has zero trust in their healer, then I doubt the problem was the DPS. We're a pretty trusting group to start with.

[Odd]

As a healer, I get annoyed when I see RDM do this. Simply because as a healer main for 4 years, I've already started my cast on them, or whoever they're trying to heal. If they use their skill to make it instant, it results in me over healing. If not instant, it's them who over heals.

[LunarEmerald]

Vercure has saved me many times from unavoidable aoe damage because the healer was slacking.

[DPZ2]

Then they die and are like "rez?" Which I reply "you're a waste of mana"

Good thing your main class is "Summoner" then -- leave it for the healer to deal with ... or are you an Arcanist Physick? [Inquiring minds ...]

[NovaLevossida]

Vercure has saved me many times from unavoidable aoe damage because the healer was slacking.

This. It also lets tank survives a hit while the healer is slacking or is dead. It nicely forms a combo with tank heal + raise a healer. But all too often I'd have to use it to top myself off after being targeted for a mechanic, the healer not healing me back up, and then the next raid-wide AoE was going to kill me.

The problem was that Vercure was actually becoming part of my rotation in the EX primals because of all the bad play in there. So not only are we losing DPS from people dying, we're losing DPS from me having to fix all of the problems and raising healers etc.

So I just went back to BLM so I can just not be bothered with it.

[Kartel112]

I'm a red mage and sometimes I like to take the stress off the healer and heal myself in sticky situations and I also like to help the healer revive ppl and I get thanked in the end

[Kacho_Nacho]

The main point is that it doesn't help at all unless you are patching up an actual emergency.

I have to say I'm surprised at the responses thus far. I rather thought it was going to be more "oh yeah, those silly RDMs, why do they keep trying to heal when they should be DPSing," but I guess people really like their Vercure.

Me too. It should be self-evident that Vercure is meant for questing and for emergency use in an instance only. Silly red mages.

Considering that there are already RDMs out there that are making playstyle choices of melee only RDM or caster only RDM, I'm not really surprised that people are gimping themselves because they want to try to be unique by playing a support RDM. I don't know where the enjoyment comes from of intentionally gimping yourself because you want to be a unique snowflake, it's truly mind-boggling.

Really? Why would anyone want to do that? It's just stoopid.

[Ryaz]

How would one even make a melee only RDM... Just started leveling mine and there's only like 3 melee attacks right? You cast your spells until you have enough of each mana, jump in with your heavy hitting enhanced melee, jump out and repeat.

[SaintPepsi]

Vercure IS part of the RDM rotation during downtime to ready chainspell/Dualcast

[Iveriad]

I usually just use Vercure/Verraise if :
1. One or both Healers are dead.
2. Both are low on MP and my Mana Shift is down.
3. Most of the people in the party didn't know mechanics and eats all AoEs, to the point that number one and/or two become a really likely possibility.