White Mage just might be okay

[SuzakuCMX]

Aside from raid progression

Is there any other place where the content is hard enough that the differences between class balance actually matter? WHM can just set regen, Asylum, and Medica II and then faceroll Stone IV all day in a dungeon and be head and shoulders above SCH/AST in damage in dungeons.

I get where he's coming from. The number of times I've just watched Freecure fall off because the cure that procced it brought the tank out of danger with HoTs covering the difference is probably shared by most WHMs. And if I have Freecure and Tetra I'm still using Tetra first because that can be followed with a Stone III 2 seconds sooner.

I'll not say Freecure is bad, but it's extremely situational.

It's FAR from useless. Freecure means you can let the tank drop HP for a few more seconds while you DPS and then you can use Cure II instead of spamming Cure I to get them out of that HP hole, or you get to save some MP by using Cure II instead of Cure I (because who cares about overhealing if your tank is aggroing properly at that point and WHM needs all the MP it can get). It's one of the best healer passives in the game.