Bleh, wrote a bunch of junk only to press backspace and loose it all >.>;

If you're looking a reason as to why SCH gained regen mastery over whitemage, I would probably put it down to it fitting the style of SCH more than giving it any other healing option. That and giving them Cure V would be so hideously broken it isn't even funny.

When you consider that there are only a small handful of ways to deal with healing.

Mitigate it via phalanx/stoneskin/some sort of pdt spell/scherzo(/migawari)?
A pdt spell would seem more like a RDM thing, and you can see how up in arms they are about SCH phalanx-ja being 'better' than the merited phalanx2. Either that or steal spells from other jobs.

Heal it directly instantaneously via a higher tiered cure?
I did the math somewhere about SCH (with current gear) getting Cure V. Well geared ones will belt out ~1,500+ consistantly, and that's excluding rapture.

Or recover it over time via regens?
Which, let's face it, fits the theme of SCH and their general over-time theme.



Personally I'm not really bitter over loosing the 'mastery' over regen spells... they were rarely used at 75 and only got worse as levels increased.