WHM/RDM

[Jerbob]

Simplifying the roles of jobs to that level is always difficult because most things can be justified. I could argue that White Mage's primary role is to restore HP efficiently, with high potency and with low enmity penalties, and thus any white magic that does so should be available to them. It doesn't really get us anywhere, though. We can make hypotheses forever regarding why a certain job possesses a certain spell or spell line and another doesn't, but what is more important is where we go from here.

I think it's unhealthy to force jobs into roles that specific, to be honest - especially when SCH is more than capable of putting out some pretty healthy healing numbers using (admittedly limited) strategems when necessary. SCH and Red Mage are better classified using a broader label such as "support casting" jobs - Red Mage with specialisations into enfeebling and self-enhancing (which I will be the first to point out that SE has broken horribly) and SCH with specialisations in... pretty much everything, unfortunately. SE needs to work on giving support casting jobs tools that make them worth placing in parties alongside the specialist casting jobs (White Mage and Black Mage) rather than having us all bicker amongst ourselves when we steal each other's roles and spells. This would mean concessions on both sides, but with benefits for both sides as well.

I wouldn't object to SCH specialising in regen if another job didn't clearly already possess such a specialisation. I'm not saying that regen doesn't fit SCH, I'm saying SCH does not have an exclusive right to it. Regen should not be SE's "quick fix" for SCH, just as SCH's claim to regen should not completely destroy any potential for the spell to be improved for other jobs.

I am sensing that an "agree to disagree" conclusion is inevitable here, which is very unfortunate.