Quote Originally Posted by MellowMink View Post
There’s honestly no good reason for there to be an inconsistency between the utility of healing options with summoner versus red mage. In this particular case, either Physick should be updated to scale off the correct stat to be consistent with Red Mage, or healing spells be removed from both DPS jobs.
Why do we need to have a supposed "consistency" between Red Mage and Summoner in the first place? It's clear that Physick is only there on SMN because it's just a remnant of Arcanist and removing it would probably affect SCH. If they really planned to give any form of healing spell for SMN they would have done it ages ago. To be fair, we have Phoenix already to provide healing. If both healer are dead, tanks already have it in their kits means of temporary protection till the healers get raised somehow.
Also, there's absolutely no reason for SMN to have a healing skill just because RDM has one. They don't need to have (and I'm glad they don't have) the exactly same kind of support kit. Let the job have their unique features and move on.