Quote Originally Posted by Stormcaster View Post
Remember that while Verraise and Vercure are nice and all, you are never ever expected to use them outside of emergency when the healer (in dungeons) or both healers (in raids and trials) died. In contents and especially in high-end ones, your primary job is to deal damage. Raising and healing people are not your job. Those are the healers' jobs. Winning the fight early is always better.
In a general sense I agree,
But as a Red Mage you will end up in the emergency situation a lot more than you think, so as a Red Mage you better be prepared for it. It still happens to me even after all this time

Just last weekend I was in Copied Factory and the moment I zoned in I see both healers in our team in cutscene. So you can imagine how that went, they were first time ever in Copied Factory rank newbies.

You expect it to happen because they're new, but they died and died and died and died... and then died a few more times for good measure. Luckily for them the team composition was 2 Bards and 3 Red mages. I ended up with two full party saves in that one, and I know one of the other Red Mages did too because I went down once, looked up and saw both healers down and the only one left was a Red Mage who got us all back up.

First part of the Serial Jointed Command Module went ok, then I suddenly look up, and both healers are down, so are all the Bards and Red Mages and I'm going what the hell happened? The only people left standing are me and the Tank?

I had already Verraised the Healers once prior when they went down. So I raised the Healers again with dual casted Verraise and one RDM. kicked in Lucid Dreaming and popped a Super Ether, then picked up a Bard and another RDM. In hind sight I should probably have picked up the Bard before the RDM so we could get the MP quickly but I had to do it quick.

Happened again at 9S. But this time the only one standing besides me was a Bard.

The team Red Mages were busy that day I can tell you. As a Red Mage you are the only one standing between success and making it through vs a team wipe. And I also run into this a lot in the Vauthrie 8 man and the Hades 8 Man.