White Mage is Poorly designed compared to Scholar

[Eriane]

Good job misunderstanding my point! Bonus points for sneaking in a L2P! Clunky doesn't mean hard, it means it's more effort than a whm mindlessly face rolling 90% of the damage back in a single button press with no pet positioning required. If Death sentence were more of an issue or we were struggling with debuff rotations or stoneskin/heal timing on the hit then perhaps. But eh, we seem to be doing just fine running with whm/sch combos in our coil groups so ty anyhow!

I don't know if faceroll is the word I would use. Using cure 3 for example can be a drain on mana where fairy heals are free and don't cost you a gcd. And using pets to soak fireball means you don't need any positioning to heal, the pet is already in position.

If death sentence isn't an issue that's great but that's also because SCH deals with it so well. I think Sharaz is just pointing out that two sch borderline trivializes it. But that is the point, class balance doesn't really come out or become an issue until content gets harder. But that doesn't mean that it doesn't exist.

For example, I could point out that sch/sch is weak in raid heals. Esp if content required burst aoe healing to the extent that cure 3 would be needed on a rotation that was more than once or twice a minute. That's a balancing issue, but content like that doesn't exist so its irrelevant. Twin is the first fight where whm weaknesses start to show. If the game had more encounters with spike dmg and healing debuffs it would start to be an issue.

But isn't that really the point? The general thought process is that whm excels at burst aoe healing, and sch excels at burst st healing. Well content favors the latter.