Quote Originally Posted by Renathras View Post
This would be true if I hadn't mentioned FF11, which is an MMO... In fact, FF11's WHM to FF14's WHM is the most apples-to-apples comparison we could look for.
And once again, in your quest to be legalistic pedant, you've missed the point: what matters is whether each game provides a satisfactory answer in its own context.

Instead of addressing that, you're... stuck on how FFXI is an apple, and how FFXIV is another apple, while ignoring the fact you yourself spent a lot of words talking about the fish that are FF3, FF4, FF5, FF7, FFTA, all while glossing over your own position that "some spin offs and XI (where RDM did it better) aren't exactly the best cases."

The same with this legalistic pedanticism over FFX's Yuna. I played that game ~20 years ago. Yuna might not literally be called a White Mage, but if you're coming from FF1 and FF4, she obviously fills the same role. Her starting section of the sphere grid is obviously inspired by white mage. She's one of, if not the only, characters who's naturally set up to learn Holy, an archetypal white mage skill. The story required her to be a summoner; her game play slotted her as a white mage. The fact that you can blur over all these distinctions at the end game is the exception that proves the point.