Quote Originally Posted by Kabooa View Post
Back when we could cross class into the healing spells proper, literally any of the Caster DPS jobs could heal them too.

I don't think White mage is the problem.
One of my fondest memories as a new player back in ARR was playing on a 8-12 FPS laptop and healing the tank through 2/3rds of the last boss on Keeper of the Lake as a BLM, because the healer had died to some random AoE in the first phase. The other DPS kept themselves alive via bloodbath while I used manaward and the garbage Physicks were enough to keep the tank alive the entire time. Plus I sometimes used Physick in A4N in order to ensure I could soak two orbs when that instance was new.

Mind you it wasn't all that interesting in retrospect, but it's proof that those instances were pretty weak compared to what people talk about for balance.