Quote Originally Posted by Fynlar View Post
Personal experience does matter, though. Do you think I'm going to be all like "well, I should be out of MP right now according to The Math, even though I'm not, so maybe I'll just stop casting so as not to break the rules of The Math"?
If you hit that time point in a fight and were not out of mana then you were either A) Not playing the class optimally or B) Were in a fight where you were forced to move so much, or the boss left for an extended amount of time with no adds deployed, you gained some seconds on your timer by virtue of the fact you cease casting entirely so you can actually regen some mana.

Again personal experience does not matter. Opinions does not matter. If you were doing everything right and always performing your rotation 100% perfect you ran out of MP after 15 minutes. 11 minutes if you used 1 verraise, 7 minutes if you used 2 verraise, 3 minutes if you used 3 verraise. If you died you ran on fumes reduced to using the unenchanted melee combo while you tried to regen mana for some spell casts. That was the straight undeniable result of the math that people even tested in game and found to be correct.

It would have been a "fine" time limit if RDM did not have verraise or vercure. However because RDM had those as its utility it was expected to need to use those. Which meant ideally you did not want any fight a RDM participated in to be longer then 7 minutes assuming deaths happen but it still gets cleared within that amount of time. In other words, you did not want RDM in any current trial fight or raid unless everyone had already mastered it because the rDPS loss from RDM casting verraise or dying once was too harsh. At which point you do not bring RDM at all. RDM is the "progression" caster, once the fight has been mastered you swap to a high DPS caster like BLM for clear speed because you wont need any of the utilities that RDM brought which means RDM was broken and non viable.

Ergo RDM got buffed to be viable instead of broken. Now it does not have MP troubles outside of excessively stupid parties.