Differentiating healer identities

[KarmaYraeon]

I've never quite understood where the "high raw potency healing" image for WHM comes from:

- Lustrate and Druochole aren't that far below Afflatus Solace, Cure II, and Tetragrammaton.
- Indomitability and Ixochole are the same potency as Afflatus Rapture and Medica.
- Adloquium, Succor, Eukrasian Diagnosis, and Eukrasian Prognosis actually come out ahead of Cure II and Medica if you include the shields.

Or from a different angle, any combination of healers has to be able to deal with "oops, everyone's at 1% HP" mechanics in Duty Finder, so WHM's allegedly high potency heals don't set it apart in the exact scenario where high potency heals ought to mean something, because the party can't rely on having a WHM in the first place.

I wish WHM were the healer counterpart of BLM, but for me, WHM simply lacks in everything that actually makes playing BLM interesting and fun.

It isn't so much that white mage has high raw healing potency, and moreso that it feels like white mage could and probably should lean more into that style of play. A more straight forward healer that is at least neutral in terms of doing its gcd healing, perhaps beyond just the lilies feeding into afflatus misery. The idea of it playing as a mirror to black mage where it swaps between a heal-focused phase and a damage-focused phase that feed into eachother is kind of a stretch, but something along the lines of healing being at least net neutral for more than just 3 lilies would be nice. Like lilies taking 30 seconds to generate instead of 20, but then casting non-healing gcds reduce the time left to your next lily. Maybe using non-lily gcds improve the potency of following damage spells and vise versa along a similar vein as astral fire and umbral ice stacks.

The idea is general that it would be nice for the class to feed more into that long cast, high power fantasy as a healer, not necessarily that it currently sits there. Sage and scholar tend to focus more on mitigating damage than really healing it, and astro focused on its ogcd healing, so if only by that metic, it feels like white mage should be able to more reliably and better use gcd healing and benefit from it, rather than just spend a few lilies and get a net neutral out of it every now and then.