As for RDM utility, it's not as good as people want to make it look. Yes, it's an utility after all, however it's only physical damage to party members, useless for your mages if you have any in the group, 10% being initial potency and decreasing every few secs. It only actually counts for the first hits of the opening rotations, not even a full combo. Not an excuse for the lack of BLM dps compared to their rotation and utility, but just pointing that out for anyone who keeps using the rdm high dps and utility argument, and a RDM should NEVER cast vercure. Verraise would only count as decent utility if you had the scenario of a lot of raises needed, which then hurt your dps, not only for the loss of time, but also the MP cost. On a decent scenario, no one, or just a couple of members would die, which can be taken care of by healers as they've been for the past years. On the same note, you can't use Apocapotato or mana shift as an argument for party utility as BLM. Long cooldowns for something you barely use or need in a fight, and mana shift actually hurting your restricted rotation dependant on a BLM's current mp.