Quote Originally Posted by Silver-Strider View Post
Oh believe me, I hate the whole Holy Magic Aesthetic WHM has now. I understood Holy since that's the signature WHM spell but why strip it of its Elemental Roots in ShB just to give it a skill like Aqua Veil in EW, especially since the Water Magic Aspect of WHM was always the least explored aspect of the job that we'd been asking for years to be expanded upon. They remove Fluid Aura after YEARS of killing it slowly and then decide, "here's a water barrier".
Not only that but they went hard on the whole Lily theme as well. Holy looks like a Flower Blooming and Lilybell is literally a plant.

They obviously can't commit to what aesthetic they want for Healers, with the lone exception being that Healers just have to be in a Dress/Robe of some kind. I would kill for some Chainmail Armor that doesn't end in a Skirt tyvm.
I love the holy magic theme going for white mage personally. It's what I always wanted. Final fantasy white mage never had all these elemental spells, it was leftovers from 1.0, but traditionally in final fantasy white mage always had holy magic. I personally wish they went with yellow/white color theme instead of white/blue for our glare and dia spells but this is a lot better IMO than throwing rocks. Stone 4 was such an awful animation and none of the stone nukes in this game ever really looked....cool. Neither did any of the aero variations besides aero 3 which IMO we should get back but light themed. Not to say dia or glare looks particuarly cool either, they're pretty boring but still look much better and cleaner than all variations of stone + aero 1/2 IMO.

I hope they keep on the trajectory and strip white mage of all it's nature theme so eventually they can release a geomancer class. I don't really care what geomancer is but I'd like to have a form of geomancy in this game. Be it caster DPS with nature magic, tank or whatever.

I think the last part you touched upon is the part they need to change the most. Guys play healers/casters too you know SE....can we please not have so many frills, ribbons and dresses? Or at least let there be male/female variations. The P4S, & 24 man chest pieces released so far are awful on guy characters. They're so feminine. It's awful playing a healer/caster as a guy. There's very little glamours out there that fit the theme of healer but also looks good on guy characters.