RDM and the Utility Tax

[Kolsykol]

I'm not sure I understand the point of your post.

Are you trying to say that the people claiming the tax exists are bad players making it up to explain their low DPS?
Or that groups who allow someone to join them on their RDM in the first place are bad players?
Or that people who attempt to justify allowing the tax to continue to exist are bad players...?

You kind of meandered a bit with the throwing of substance-less shade, I think literally everyone got hit by the splash in there without you ever making a point.



I agree that it helps RDM stand out, which is one of the reasons I'm against simply taking it away and making it a role action on a cooldown.
That and the age-old "Black Mages shouldn't be casting Raise" line.

As I said in the OP, the furthest I would go is either putting it on a charge system so we can still use it multiple times per fight but a free oGCD, so it costs us nothing to cast but still comes at a cost to our potential just to hold... or reducing (key word, not removing) the damage gap we have with BLMs but highlighting the penalty of casting Verraise, so that we are only taxed for using it.

I don't see how you could get that out of what I said.
I think that what I said was pretty clear.

The heal and res utility of RDM isn't useful unless people are either actively being so bad at the game that it basically becomes impossible for the healer to do their job ( or the healer is bad ).
Progression I suppose is an exception to this, but the progression phase only lasts for so long and then what?
You're supposed to switch to another class just to escape from the '' tax '' attached to the utility that you have which is now basically useless?

I don't think that what is basically situational utility should come with a '' tax '' like this.
It's one thing when the utility is always useful ( like big dps increases ), it's another thing when the utility basically boils down to '' did someone mess up? ''.
The utility that comes with a '' tax '' shouldn't depend on people messing up in order to be useful, that basically just makes it gimped when people are playing properly.
The usefulness of utility that comes with a '' tax '' shouldn't depend upon people messing up imo.
Especially not when you're only gimping yourself even more by utilizing it on top of that '' tax '' too ( like GCD's, mana cost etc that could've been used on damage instead ).

I don't think that it makes you a bad player for accepting a RDM into your group or for playing them, people having fun is the most important to me.
But that's a totally separate thing from talking about balance.