Quote Originally Posted by Vallhallix View Post
SMN has been up or down DPS-wise with every patch and in every single patch it had a raise, so raise has nothing to do with it, just an easy target to blame, more like incompotence handling the class because since the very start of the class they simply did not know what they wanted it to be. It simply should not have ever been packaged with SCH. And they spent every single patch trying different things with it. Raise is not at fault.
Yoshi-P said it himself in the recent liveletter that BLM has higher DPS than the other casters because they don't have Raise. It's actually a legitimate reason to them.

Besides, SMN was barely weak ever except 2.x and now 5.0. It was strong in 3.x and actually busted in 4.x. I guess now they did lower SMN damage because people had debates in 4.x about DPS Raise being "too good" when it really wasn't.