RDM and the Utility Tax

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It matters a great deal, actually. If it's a GCD it means we have to stop attacking to cast the spell, on top of the MP cost. That's a Dualcast or Swiftcast we could have spent on a Verthunder/aero.
If it's off-GCD, it's completely free to use, and we can simply slide it in after any instant spell at no DPS loss whatsoever.



How often are you rezzing, exactly, that 2 charges you can toss out in a row is too few, but 3 is "maybe even" too much?

Thing is, the fact you can raise a healer and/or tank entirely for free, especially if the former can do the remainder of the rezzing, is a large part of its massive potency. If you actually have to throw out three or more rezzes in a row, and more than two of those are non-DPS, you're likely wiping.



I like the idea of a stacking debuff, but -25% is far too much. Using it even once would put our DPS lower than healers -- at that point you may as well just have the healers full-cast Raise. Hell, we'd be punished more harshly for using it even once than SMN's tax for only being able to throw one instant Raise out!

Depending on how much the gap between casters is hypothetically reduced, somewhere between 5-10% per stack is plenty to get the point across, I think.

Raise will never be on oGCD: They made raise hard cast time 8 seconds for healers so if they don't have quickcast they'd need to find a 8 seconds window to raise someone OR wait up to 60 sec. When RDM first came out I was extremely surprised there was no exception on dualcast for verraise. Also, even healer have to spend a GCD to raise someone.. It would made the skill incredibly awkward for a caster DPS to have and that solution would probably backfire (nerfing RDM because they have super instant and free raises).

If you really want to see RDM's DPS up there's simpler solution.
Eg.: they could just augment the mana cost of verraise. Make it take half RDM's MP, now you'll certainly won't be able to chain raise people and that would cripple the utility enough to explain the personal DPS increase.