White Mage vs Scholar - Why is White Mage lacking?

[Zedd702]

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Let's see... What else... Oh. A Tl;dr.
When a group is well experienced in a dungeon and is only taking unavoidable raid-damage, Scholars excel because the bulk healing White Mage's have isn't needed. Therefore, the enables Scholars to rely on their second GCD cooldown set (Fairy) to heal while they can DPS and do a variety of other things.

And and and and. Regen =/= Embrace. It's sort of like that question asking you if you'd take 1000 dollars now or get 1000 dollars every 5 years for a total of 50 years ($10000)

What I don't get is why in the hell anyone would even compare regen to embrace in the first place... It's not a fair comparison at all, even for an argument such as this one. And yes I know that you did not compare it as your last sentence indicates you acknowledge that regen =/= embrace. What I don't agree with in your tl;dr section is this:

Scholars excel because the bulk healing White Mage's have isn't needed. Therefore, the enables Scholars to rely on their second GCD cooldown set (Fairy) to heal while they can DPS and do a variety of other things.

Have you met ANY of the primals? Have you met Scyalla, Xande, Twintania, or even done any of the HM dungeons? And that's just the early content that requires "bulk" (assuming you meant group/AoE) healing.

Seriously AoE healing is needed and scholar's do not possess many tools at all to cover this arena. They cannot sit on a team in a HM dungeon with fairy on auto heal, while they just DPS, sure if they are bad SCH's and let teammates die occasionally during rare instances when tanks lose hate or more frequently when bosses do damage to the entire party.

Scholar and WHM's both have pros and cons. The ONLY thing WHM lacks is a better MP recovery skill. The only thing they should buff is SoS in one of two ways (either slash the recharge time of the skill by half or increase the amount of MP restored). Other than that WHM is just fine as is...