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

[Ghishlain]

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Well, it's quite cleared you're quite entrenched in your opinion. All I have to contribute to said opinion

(1) You severely underestimate the power of Holy in any 4-man trash content. It's extremely powerful, more so if your random PF DPS doesn't involve BLMs and thus a WHM can greatly speed up a run.

(2) Every fight (or strategy for a fight) has a particular setup. Let's analyze:
(2a) ADS Enrage start for T2 - Generally want at least 2 WHMs to handle the damage load at the minimum.
(2b) Ramuh Single Tank strategy - 2 SCHs +WHM since Lustrate isn't affected by the healing potency debuff
(2c) Urth's Fount Trial - Generally recommended to go with 2 WHMs as the amount of outgoing damage can be overwhelming.
(2d) More or less every single BCoB fight - Bring 2 SCHs as raid wide damage was light and heavy single target heals/mitigation was boss.

If S-E ever released a fight (let's say Omega Weapon) and Omega had the ability to fire two attacks that are the equivalent of LotA Ancient Flare for 5K damage within 5 second succession (BTW, Ancient Flare can't be mitigated in ANYWAY SHAPE OR FORM), all the SCHs on the planet would cry nerf that. Good luck healing that double SCH. Even WHM + WHM you would probably need to see both WHMs using Cure III to help survive that.

What I'm aiming for is the importance for healers to understand their strengths and weaknesses and see what they can contribute to the fight as a whole. While you can argue one healer has a bit of an edge over the other, the divide isn't so great that everyone is "OMG SCH IS SO OVERPOWERED"

On that note, I wish a comment like this was posted as an April Fools' joke or something.

Producer and director Yoshi-P here.

Due to the overwhelming amount of complaints about how overpowered Scholar is and how underpowered Summoner is, for reasons of balancing, when we release Heavensward we will be removing the Arcanist class and all jobs associated with that class from the game, permanently.

We encourage all Scholars to level Astrologian and Summoners to level Machinist instead.

Please look forward to it.

I reiterate, I wish this was posted as an April Fools' prank post. I'm not trying to impersonate the producer >.>; lol