White-mage is doomed - and why

[Sebazy]

So we're back to "the only possible solution is homogeneity" or were any and all alternatives that don't require turning all shields and mitigation into Role Actions, despite shield and pure healers being separately classified in matchmaking, just coincidentally absent?

No? Where did you even pluck that from?

My personal take is that if SE wanted to get serious about the whole barrier vs pure healer thing, Neutral Sect should have been reworked into something else. Instead we got the usual bluster and hot air followed by more underbaked shortsighted changes that don't go far enough.

But yeah, since Neutral Sect is still a thing, I'd argue that WHM should bring something else to the table instead.

The unfortunate reality is that unless you place value on it's more simplistic kit, it doesn't.