RDM should get a slight nerf

[MaelleRiou]

Uh, they definitely should be because balancing is measured at the full potential of every job. It absolutely makes no sense not to.

If you're going to balance with utility in mind then you have to take into consideration the cost of actually using that utility. Which the top parses do not, since the top parsing red mages are the ones who aren't having to raise people.

[dinnertime]

If you're going to balance with utility in mind then you have to take into consideration the cost of actually using that utility. Which the top parses do not, since the top parsing red mages are the ones who aren't having to raise people.

Raise is like the ONLY utility that costs you DPS along with Vercure. Thing is, you only use these spells for progression and when you're doing prog, you shouldn't care too much about your damage because you're trying to survive learning the fight.
After that, Raise becomes near unnecessary for you to use and it's smarter to let the healers do the raising if they're both still alive.

Anyway since we're comparing RDM to SMN in this thread, they both have Raises so none are special from the other in that regard.