Quote Originally Posted by Economizer View Post
And if you aren't dropping all your healing power, you should still be doing enough extra damage to balance the lost healing power out, especially since other healing jobs can, in the absolutely vast majority of cases do "good enough" with just Cure IV and some Fast Cast. Of course there will always be situations where it is better to go full mage and bust out those Curagas (even if Curaga slightly favors standing in the thick of combat and taking some of those AoEs to the face in order to increase MP efficiency), but for everything else there really needs to be better options.

So really, I have to ask, "Why not?" because it is incredibly unfair and shallow minded to just automatically assume that White Mage shouldn't be able to match a Ninja, at least if they're trading absolutely everything for it. I think there would be far less eyebrows raised if someone requested for a Scholar to be able to do close DPS compared to a Ninja when they go all out Dark Arts mode, and Scholar can swap arts and heal nearly as good as a White Mage so... yeah. This sort of thing should be carefully considered as to why things are the way they are rather then an automatic kneejerk against it.
I will agree to this just as soon as you agree to Dark Knight being able to give up their DD capabilities and be able to heal as well as a White Mage.