Quote Originally Posted by Lagomorph View Post
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.
I assume by casual play you mean dungeons and EX-Primals? As in, piss-easy content? The notion that the game should be balanced around this is idiotic, sorry. Such content is completely irrelevant since it's so easy everyone can do it with every job in very good time.

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.
Let me translate. Out of a 6 month content cycle (3 if you mash Savage and Ultimate together), WHM was used by high-end groups for a grand total of, what? 2-3 weeks each tier maybe? And then shelved for AST, at least for the first two tiers, and immediately for the third.

Silly me thinking there is any problem with this at all! It was in the best spot possible since forever and very loved by everyone, how could I not have seen that?/s