Anyone else wish RDM was a PURE support class?

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FFXIV will never have a pure support job because people wouldn't take them. A one dimensional focus is why Paladin and White Mage suffer right now.

That really isn't the problem with those jobs. That issue is nothing except those two do less damage than their counterparts. If balance got removed, I'd bet you see people drop AST like a hot potato.

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That would be a fundamental change to XIV's design, hence by previous point. Adding to your list, any pure support job would need to be constantly applying buffs and outpace the damage another dedicated DPS offers. None of this accounts for people's willingness to play it. Unfortunately, non-damaging type jobs aren't popular in any game. Even if they were willing to change how the current system works, I agree, it'd likely wind up a mess.

That really isn't the problem with those jobs. That issue is nothing except those two do less damage than their counterparts. If balance got removed, I'd bet you see people drop AST like a hot potato.

Ehh. You'd be surprised. Although Balance is the biggest problem, the other cards still bring a utility White Mage simply cannot match. They have a single niche: raw healing. It doesn't work because both Astro and Scholar can heal through all content without skipping a beat while providing significantly better utility.

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Ehh. You'd be surprised. Although Balance is the biggest problem, the other cards still bring a utility White Mage simply cannot match. They have a single niche: raw healing. It doesn't work because both Astro and Scholar can heal through all content without skipping a beat while providing significantly better utility.

But ASTs were preferably put to the side before Balance's super buff. What makes now different? I was under the impression that WHM's healer heavy toolkit simply allowed them to deal more damage than AST since non-balance cards are unreliable garbage.