Quote Originally Posted by Rathael View Post
This indicates to me that a large majority of RDM players play below the maximum potential of RDM. I would put this down to the fact that the majority of fights end up with deaths and wipes that result in RDM sacrificing personal DPS to raise. The damage of RDM should be balanced to an ideal situation where no raise is necessary. If they were able to match the damage of other utility jobs while raising, and also bringing embolden, RDM would be overpowered. This is why RDM always looks underpowered on logs.
At 95th percentile or above, you aren't going to see Verraise once. If there is a death, that responsibility is entirely on the healers. This bracket is Red Mage focusing on damage and nothing else. And it's overall damage contribution is laughable next to Black Mage. Even at 75% you will see very few Verraise, and they certainly won't tax Red Mage by the staggering amount it currently is.

Quote Originally Posted by Rathael View Post
I am not sure RDM needs a buff in this respect. BRD, MCH and RDM all feel disadvantaged right now simply because both NIN and DRG are overtuned. Since the other two melee, SAM and MNK, are both personal-dps classes (and therefore should be doing more damage than utility jobs), 5.08 melee are currently overtuned. The current insanely overpowered state of NIN is very likely to change in 5.1... leaving the major problem-child as DRG.

When NIN comes back down, DRG could use a nerf and MCH could use a buff (given that it has no DPS-based utility). SAM could also use a little extra love to put it on par with BLM and MNK but it is not far behind, numerically.
Did you forget about Mantra and Brotherhood? Both are incredibly useful utility that Monk provides. In fact, Brotherhood is roughly the equivalent of Battle Litany. Leaving Monk in its current state but nerfing Ninja and Dragoon will simply result in a double Striking melee comp. As Saber noted above, either the entire ceiling—which includes Black Mage alongside the melee—needs to come down or the floor needs to go up.