Quote Originally Posted by Veritas-Ancora View Post
I feel like too many people aren't reading threads and are just assuming crap instead of checking the sources.

No, 8-player raids will not utilize Phoenix Downs. No, they're not taking away RDM raises. No, they're not doing this to increase damage output.

It was painfully clear from the Live Letter that this is for casual content only.
It has already been said by yoshi p himself there is a very high chance smn (and by extension rdm) will lose the rez in 8.0 and they almost lost it for 7.0. This would absolutely help the "issue" of those rezzes being useful in normal content but cause a "rez tax" for higher end content. Its only 4 person content *for now* who's to say it wont be extended into normal trials and raids. I think its actually very likely this is the reason they are doing it but only time will tell