Quote Originally Posted by AishaK View Post
What square is doing with white mage is completely hypocritical when they say proshell is needed for healer balance without also looking at the other healer. It shouldn't be all give and no take. It's shoehorning scholar into the #1 healing position.
This is not entirely true either. Square-Enix has the right mindset by giving White Mages more options to deal some damage. Mitigation aside, healer DPS is another task for Scholars in raid environment (or minmaxers in general). To off-set this, White Mages are getting more tools to theoretically close the gap on Scholars in this field. Whether it's equal or better will depend on the potency of each spell they'll be getting in HW.

However, this does not solve one of the main reasons why White mages aren't off-DPSing as much as scholars are: Accuracy. As long accuracy is a problem, White Mages will never be able to compete with Scholars in this area. With or without the new spells, especially when the accuracy requirement becomes higher and higher.

It's not like the new spells/abilities White Mages are getting are bad. They're bland, if anything. The damage abilities are just not very viable as long accuracy is a thing.