Ok so trying to read through 200+ pages of this stuff... yeah i'm not going to do so if i'm repeating things that's why and I apologize.

First let me start off with this. I've been a white mage since 1.0 and before when it was just a Conjurer. I've seen this class get downgraded so many times it's not even funny. When it was just the class roles, we lost most of the major attack spells that we had. IE: the ancient spells of Quake and such. It really ticked us off. Then white mage came out and it was pretty decent then, with the Holy spell, and our powerful cures... however after 2.0 came out Holy became nerfed. There were even a lot of us that didn't use certain spells due to preferring different ones over the other (like using medica 2 with it's regen properties and better aoe, than Cure 3 where everyone had to stack) or even pointless ones (or semi pointles) Fluid Aura (that is my opinion only if any disagrees, meh).

Finally we got an easier spell of stoneskin which was an aoe cast, granted it had a hella long cast time but that was compensated with the quickcast. Now even that's gone. We can't cast all three aeros, nor the three different stones if we wanted to. Heck does stone 1 even put slow on a target anymore? (I haven't been in a low level dungeon recently). Honestly what has been done to Whm doesn't feel like it's helping us much. It feels like it's trying to make us obsolete.