Can Healer Balance Survive a 4th Healer?

[Risvertasashi]

If you're referring to the shield/regen dichotomy

This isn't a dichotomy anyways, which just kind of shows how little the community tends to know about balancing healers to begin with.

Scholar has some great regens, including the most powerful single target regen in the game. AST is a regen powerhouse even in Noct stance now, which is part of why it's finally competitive with scholar, and in diurnal stance it gets more regens than white mage.

But we're also as close to balanced with healers than we've ever been. Think about that for a moment - and how little it has to do with shields and regens and this dichotomy so many seem to think exists...