White mage remain gimp because the can go scholar on real content?

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op healer in 4 man teams? Scholar? Check.
Top utility out of healers? Scholar? Check.
Best mitigation abilities which infinitely scale better then pure healing? Scholar? Check.
The goto healer job for everything but a few fights requiring pure strong heals? Scholar? Check.

Despite what people's opinion the fact of the matter is people will play the majority of the time the job which is the strongest. That is the most logical path that all gamers take which is the path that gives the most power for least resistance. Scholars have an auto mode pocket healer with the best heals and defensive cooldowns in the game. White mage has just medica and medica only. Regen is for the most part becoming more and more useless as this game moves more to a burst heavy phase with slow mid healing required build up. The way wow did before they revamped healing.

Healing is becoming an issue with scholars being able to match and outpace white mages in every category. The only thing white mage brings is a stronger aoe heal and with a third healer coming into the game unless healing dynamics is changing to require 3 healers in raids you will see white mages benched. Only reason a white mage is used is because scholars cannot stack well. If scholars had a way to stack the adlo issue then white mages would be benched all together minus some people with snow flake syndrome wanting to feel special playing a weak job.

White mages need something else given to them then a magic defensive buff added to protection. 8% more on stoneskin is not even close to compare to a good scholar being able to split healing between them and manually using pet with rouse on different targets makes it much more flexible and adaptable. The issue is Scholars are too powerful.