What exactly IS a White Mage?

[Metsonm]

The dungeon dude.

The thing is that Scholar is pretty consistently faster in dungeons runs across pretty much all skill levels. Swallow's compass seems to swap between all three as you go from 99th to 25th percentile, but more often than not Scholar provides faster clear times. There are a couple instances where a white mage is significantly faster than a scholar, but that's usually coupled with AST being right on their heels.

Overall, dungeons are pretty balanced in terms of healers, though, so I don't think it's fair to say White Mages excel in that regard.