Quote Originally Posted by Ftail View Post
Why is that a bad thing when they are currently top healer?
It's a bad thing for two major reasons, I think.

Firstly it's very difficult to balance. Raid buffs like chain stratagem, card, divination usually have a consistent expected dps contribution in top level play. Sure you could give white mage the personal dps to make up for not having these buffs, and they would be a competitive healer. In casual play, though, the dps contributions of the aforementioned raid buff amount to a lot less, thus the white mage personal dps advantage in that settings actually becomes very overpowered. Currently though, I'd argue that even in top level play whm personal dps alone is far ahead of a scholar's or astrologian's combined personal dps and raid buff contribution.

Secondly, there is this stigma in the community surrounding selfish classes, and it's really unhealthy for the game. As much as a few white mages around here would like people to believe, they were nowhere near as bad off in stormblood as some people say. In fact, out of the 3 final raid fights and 2 ultimate fights, 4 of these fights included a white mage in the world first group. Neo exdeath, god kefka, ucob, and uwu all were cleared first with a white mage. Only on final omega was the world first group one with an ast/sch comp. Despite this, the community had it set as the norm that whm was bad because the speedrun groups never used one. I don't think that there is a way to balance whm with personal dps alone while simultaneously removing this stigma surrounding them. Clearly right now white mage is the favored healer, but look how far ahead of the other healers in terms of raid contribution they needed to be for this to be the case.