White-mage is doomed - and why

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With the categorical division between "shield" and "pure" healers come EW, now of all times would not demand that "pure" healers must have a mitigation tool (as compared to literally any other form of compensatory capacity) or that mitigation skills be made into Role Actions.

It's a division that makes no sense and doesn't seem to stack up in reality once you look beyond WHM.

Again, I'm not trying to say that WHM should get a group shield, but rather it really should bring something of it's own to the party.