White-mage is doomed - and why

[Shurrikhan]

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.

I am totally cool with it bringing something of its own. I'm just not cool with the assumption that "SCH and SGE/AST have X, and thus WHM must get X, despite it being only one of many factors in those jobs' being preferred over WHM." Literally anything else of roughly equal contextual value, please.

You don't solve homogenization by making one class inferior to all the others.

I never said a unique weakness alone makes for a sufficiently unique job, nor that parity should not be required. "Homogeneity isn't the only solution to imbalance" =/= "Just leave shit imbalanced."

You can have parity without having complete homogeneity. You just fill the otherwise gaping hole with literally anything else of equivalent value in a competitive 8-man environment, rather than, as earlier proposed, turning essential skills (such as any and all forms of mitigation) into Role Actions.