Adding my voice to this. I've felt this way for a long time and have posted about it at least twice in the past couple weeks. So many casters seem to think we need that raise utility, but honestly it's holding us back a ton. The tax needs to be massively lowered or it needs to just be gone.

SMN and RDM are the only two DPS classes with depleting resources. This means we get hit the hardest with death (mp loss) have more skill bloat for Lucid Dreaming, and can come to a standstill if we use enough of the Raise we're taxed for to begin with. I'm sure someone will come in here and tell us why we should always have raise and the dps tax is fair. The cycle will continue.

As an aside, when they removed TP, I thought every class would use MP as a resource. Now that I know that's not true and every other dps just gets to do things for free, it's even worse for us to keep mp as a resource just because of Raise. It feels like Raise punishes us to unfair levels now: Resource depletion, dps tax, dps loss to use, diminishing returns the farther on we are into a tier, the only role with prog and farm classes our statics want us to level and play optimally, etc. The list just keeps getting longer.