about ifrit deaths: They should probably do something about the serious lag that occurs in the arena then. I get a send time of 7 in there about 50% of the time when everywhere else on the server it's almost 10X that.

So yeah, ideally not many raises are needed, but shit happens and they end up being needed anyway. If a situation calls for more raises, somebody is gonna switch to a class to get access to more raises. Same goes for other abilities that you don't have access to on jobs. That's gonna be the the way of things, like it or not.