Quote Originally Posted by Dale View Post
NO. I think White Magic nukes suck because they do crap damage for the mp used. It has nothing to do with a Black Mage. If i tried to kill something with my white magic nukes I would be out of MP before the monster was under 75% health. That is why they suck...it has nothing to do with the black mage, or any other mage for that matter.

They suck because they are not effective. Period.

Now I understand you hate paladins and think they are usless. We have established this. I've pointed out why you are wrong, and that's all I can do.
So how exactly are you judging what can be considered effective and what can't? What is it that White Mage is unable to kill via nukes? How long is too long? How little damage per MP point is too little? White Mage can definitely nuke things to death if they want.

You are drawing completely arbitrary lines and then stepping over as many of them as you want.

Is Banish III super awesome because it can do 500 damage? If no one else could do 500 damage in one hit, damn straight that would be awesome. WHM would be the single best nuker around. If Black mage was doing 400 damage per Blizzard V, then White Mage would be flipping amazing.

Is Vorpal Blade a really cool guy who doesn't afraid of anything because it can average 2k-2.5k in Abyssea? Considering a damn good DD at 75 was lucking to average that high in an ideal environment, sure it may look that way. But is it actually any good? Absolutely not. Vorpal Blade is utter crap. Why? Because it's normal for any good DD to be averaging 4k-5k in Abyssea, and the gap widens tremendously in the real DD's favor outside.

Things are good because of how much they do relative to something else. Is 100 damage/minute good? Is 1,000? Is 10,000? 100,000? How the hell would you know? Oh, that's right, because you can see how much other jobs can do and compare them.