White Mage - an analysis on the upcoming meta

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Most word first progression also use white mages in heavensward. That didn't change that white mage wasn't part of the meta.

White mages always had more bursty AoE dps compared to all the healers. They were arguably the best healer for speed running dungeons. White mage becomes more powerful the less amount of people they have to heal while the other two healers scale with more people on a group.

But the amount of white mage personal dps doesn't make up for +10% group damage or +20% crit chance that AST and SCH bring.

Correction. They used White Mage prior to 3.4, when Astro got buffed into the move. This tier saw a massive decline in White Mages at higher levels, which trickled down throughout raiders of all skill levels.

And thankfully you are wrong. It's a pretty safe assumption that plenty of abilities and values are yet to be tuned and tweaked. There's also the huge unknown that is exactly what the upcoming raid tier is going to bring. As things stand, it's most likely to either be AST/SCH or WHM/AST but you never know.

How is it safe to assume? No assumptions are safe. Had their not been such a huge uproar, I doubt the devs would make any adjustments, if they do anyway. Despite a slight nerf in some areas, I sincerely doubt Scholar gets benched.