Healing Magic Potency for non-healers

[Kosmos992k]

i disagree, a PLD can't heal at will since every clemency is 1/3 (maybe more, i havent played PLD in a while) of his mp, my concern is giving an acessible (low ocd or gcd) healing skill to non-healers

Excuse me, PLD is a hybrid Gladiator/Conjurer with access to cure. There is no reason for that spell to scale so appallingly, quite the opposite really since Conjurer is required for Paladin. Clemency was added to PLD, but as you point out it's more of an emergency heal due to MP consumption. But, even if you let PLD's Cure scale linearly with level it's never, ever going to compete with a real healer. It does however add more utility since it provides a lower potency heal than Clemency that can be used more frequently.

I'm all for distinguishing jobs from each other, but I'm also mindful of the job requirements. if CNJ is required to obtain a job, that does strongly suggest whatever job it is is a hybrid with conjurer (healer) capability. And yet before Clemency, PLDs healing abilities are terribly ineffective. I'm not suggesting that PLD or any other non healer should rival an actual healer for potency, flexibility or utility as a healer. But PLD in particular already has the worst DPS of any tank and certain issues with aggro. I see no reason why leaning more strongly on the hybrid nature of the job to increase PLD utility is a bad thing for anyone.

P.S. I main PLD and have WHM/SCH as my secondary jobs, and my partner is a pure WHM all the way. I'm in no way biased against healers nor do I want anything that would diminish their role.