quick solution towards the mage balance issue

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On the one hand, it does suck having to compete with three, possibly soon four, jobs for glam and gear drops. On the other hand, glamour dresser space is limited. They already screwed up with the jewelry split and the restriction of DoH/DoL gear.

I think it could be interesting, but I doubt they would move forward on that front, there are lots of logistical things that wouldn't make sense... how does the "role" party buff apply, are groups now expected to take 6 roles for maximum party buff?

We have three different types of melee armor already without splitting the melee role, why would caster armor need to be different?

My general solution to the raise role issue would be remove raise from casters entirely and make Phoenix Down a duty action with a 120-180s cooldown split between all members. That way, anyone in the party can use the duty action to raise, but then it gets put on CD for everyone. Or if that doesn't strike fancy, maybe a Phoenix Down "charge" gets generated with every LB bar segment. This would also greatly benefit DF parties that don't end up with a caster at all, so they at least have the chance to save their healer(s) from a wipe.

Just change the existing Phoenix Down item to be stackable with a 5 minute cooldown and leave the Duty Action buttons free for special encounter mechanics.