Issues enjoying RDM

[LauraAdalena]

Honestly, just wanted to say one thing.

I hope that Square Enix does not touch Verraise and Vercure for several reasons.

1) Lore/Immersion:

Your specialization talk feels like a false equivocation. A better comparison would be a class specializing in just damage and expecting it to raise I feel like. However, I don't think that VerRaise should be a key part to the immersion. We have other support skills, we are still the best DPS for content soloing such as POTD, old primals, and it doesn't have anything at all to do with Raise, it's all about vercure and a very high potency start in its opener. VerRaise, if removed, should not affect the lore/immersion.

The rest of it is mostly opinion which is fine. And most of your facts are alight, However...

And last but not least: Maybe Red Mage is not your thing? If you really want to take away Verraise/Vercure - a core part of RDM - to turn it into something that this profession never was meant to be...

I get that you seem to have this idea that "if RDM is just damage, it's not RDM". I feel like that's a very very small classification and telling people a job they enjoy is not for them just because they want one skill gone is a very shallow reason. (Depending on the skill that is) I, personally, am on the fence. I'd like to strike a balance between almost as much damage as BLM and having a raise. However, telling someone the class "may not be for them" just because of red mage is not just damage putting far too much weight on the skill. That's like telling someone "if you don't like rescue, healing might not be for you" or "if using reprisal is something you dislike then maybe tanking isn't for you." If someone is asking for verraise removed, this isn't a bad thing but just an idea/suggestion. This doesn't have to be the way its dealt with and most of the people I see here are suggesting it saying if they put so much weight on it why not remove it and not saying they loathe it.

I love the class, and I love the power of raising, but saying that I also understand people's gripes and understand what's actually important to the class and makes it flow.