Idk personally I think the fact that most suggestions for balancing White Mage are to increase its DPS is just a sign of the problem lol. I mean, it’s a healer. Shouldn’t we be balancing it based on how well it can...heal? As we should for all healers lol.

The fact that all healers have to be balanced doubly as healer and DPS feels to me like we’re in the starting lanes for the wrong race. I think White Mage’s ‘lagging behind’ is the result of this, and unless they turn it into a full blown DPS with a slew of mechanics and basically make Lillies a DPS mechanic, it’s never going to fit into the current game design where healers are also damage dealers.

Basically I think that because healer balancing is so focused on DPS rather than healing, other healers will always have to play second fiddle to Scholar. I think it’s time they reassessed the design of ‘healing’ as a whole, because it’s never been truly balanced. Not when the role is judged on how well they can perform a different role lol