Which healer job are you? Why?

Scholar, while I do prefer the gameplay of White Mage, the lore, fairy and the connection between the Scholars and Lalafellins makes Scholar my type of healer.

WHM because holy.

But in all seriousness WHM DPS is by far the most fun to me with Holy. I also enjoy having a larger amount of healing abilities compared to the other healers.

I split my time between WHM and SCH. I like the lore of both. WHM is nice for reactive healing and catching up after mistakes but in newer dungeons I can't heal and Holy very well. Been vacationing on SCH which has had better luck in roulette and which has easy to set DoTs and Shadowflare that give me faster flexibility in switching between extra damage (Broil) and healing.

I'm 70 in all 3, but I mained SCH from the start. I enjoy all 3 but SCH is my favorite, gameplay wise and story wise.

White Mage :)

I like to play reactive healing. But I like the Astrologian and Scholar, too!

You know.. I don't find whitemage to be a reactive healer. I find myself being more reactive on SCH or AST since you can't really spam shields without going OOM. Meanwhile on whitemage you can largesse + regen (or medica II) + asylum and ignore everyone for the entire duration.

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Which healer job are you? Why?

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Arcanist/Scholar. Why?

• Aesthetics. I'm a bookworm in real life, so the aesthetics suits me more than the other 2 classes.
• Absorb Shields/playstyle. I'm more comfortable preventing damage than healing it back, especially if the tank takes a ton of damage at once.
• Storyline. I remember very little about it, but it very much strikes me as The Origin of Zhuge Liang or something, like Diary of a Strategist or something like that.

I used to play as WHM because to me that's a FF healer, but because I'm leveling I'm dungeoning as SCH because I'm doing my non-dungeon non-trial MSQ as SMN, so it's quite convenient thanks to the level sharing for ACN to switch from one to the other.

And I quite like it! I know some people say SCH is easier than WHM, but I find it more complex and thus more interesting (so far at least, not 70 yet so that might change)

WHM.

I first started as a PLD, and back then you were forced to level CNJ to 16 to unlock the PLD stone.

Around Lv30 or so, I started running into dungeons that I did not understand very well (like Qarn) and I started feeling uncomfortable with tanking unfamiliar dungeons, so I figured I would level a healing class, and I already had CNJ on 16 so I dropped some dungeon greens on it, and Q'd up and I stuck with it.

I never saw reason to switch to SCH or AST because WHM does everything I need it to do, and I'm well-familiar with it. Someday I will level all the jobs, which will include SCH and AST, but unless they are just oh-so-much better than WHM, I will probably not use them in any serious content. WHM just has something I love about it, can't put my finger on it. It's simple to learn, but yet leaves room for mastery and it feels awesome to pull off awesome heals and some good DPS on the side and walk away with 3/3 commendations.

My favorite healing job is White Mage. I like the direct approach to my healing. My dps animations are really cool and I like the classic look of the job as well. The storyline for the white mage is also one of my favorites of the jobs I have leveled.