Quote Originally Posted by scaevola View Post
I actually didn't read the end of your post before responding to it. Sorry.
I wouldn't worry about it too much, it was more of an afterthought that I almost didn't include because it falls into the more controversial category.

I probably didn't make myself too clear, because I was actually trying to refer to stuff outside Abyssea as the focus on that statement. Abyssea is pretty figured out and I don't really think out discussion is really going to be saying much except to newer players.

At 99 everything is powerful in Abyssea. Red Mage is powerful in the sense that just like Scholar you get to cure "good enough"™ to cover healing, with the added bonus that you can do other stuff (generally better) then a White Mage, such as Phalanx if you are doing an AoE farm (native MAB for Aeolian Edge doesn't hurt either if doing it more solo-y), or having better nukes. Of course you have procs and other stuff that might throw a wrench in your job selection, but really if it is a situation where you need 100% coverage on procs it is probably a situation where bringing a party rather then trying to super lowman it will get the job done way quicker, and the benefit of having a Red Mage is somewhat lessened.

I don't even know why in this aside which is clearly not aimed towards newer players why I have to explain anything about Abyssea, but I suppose I wasn't as clear as I could be that I was trying to focus away from Abyssea when making such a statement... but that doesn't even matter, because despite this not being the focus, it still generally holds true even inside, particularly for the lowmans that were being discussed before. In Abyssea, you lose what, one blue proc? Since the discussion was about duoing that brings us to yellow procs, which Scholar (and Red Mage) handles with more variety then White Mage does by far. Scholar just gets to come out ahead with common Embrava coverage, better healing, and better nuking. If having less then a handful of procs in certain rare cases is better then healing just as good, having more haste most of the time, and being able to contribute to damage, then maybe there would be merit to those claims. But there isn't, even though that's not the thought I was trying to convey.