Econ, you misunderstood. I was using wish's own "use your gear for recast timer" argument of saying he could use his gear for warp (via cudgel). He seems convinced that nothing but /blm is useful for WHM; WHM should never use anything other than /blm (because /sch and /rdm only provide additional MP, supposedly); and that equipment will do everything /sch can.

Obviously, for WHMs especially (as I am a devoted WHM), the benefit of /sch reaches beyond what gear alone can provide, and I appreciate that you understand that.

On topic, I've seen a few NIN go /pld for the reasons you've added. Really, sometimes it's beneficial to chose a subjob that doesn't compliment your primary, just to make certain things harder and thereby test your mettle. Otherwise you'll find yourself in the crowd of DDs crying that they keep dying due to paralyze/stun/amnesia (but couldn't be bothered to use screens) or can't hold hate, get the WHM killed, and then complain that they can't heal themselves (no potions, etc).

The tragedy is that MMOs allow bad players to syphon off the good ones, and for idiots to survive by the good graces of exceptional support crews, like the BRDs and RDMs that did 99% of the work on ToAU parties.