#FFXIVHEALERSTRIKE

[KisaiTenshi]

Ironically, Pokemon games have a hell of a lot more depth than this game does when you get into the competitive scene, it's one of the examples I'd happily give as "easy to learn, hard to master".

It's also something that has been "finished" just from people button mashing (See twitch plays pokemon), so it's really an example of something that merely "Finishing" it is not the goal. Finding all the Pokemon is the real goal, but that turns the game from a 20hr game to a 200hr game.

If it adheres to FF5s job system, can I put Black Magic on my White Mage? How about give my WHM a greatsword? This game does the opposite of FF5s job system in that it's very static, the job is the job and you don't have much say in how it develops, whereas 5 lets you experiment with different passives, bring in new spells/abilities from other jobs, etc.

You could originally. Because it was based on how it worked in Wizardry.

FF1 WHM still could wield hammers, making them good for picking off enemies early game, later it would get Dia for undead enemies and Holy for anything else. It was primarily a healer sure, but it still had offensive capabilities. FF3 gave them Aero and debuffs like Silence. Rosa could wield bows and Porom could Twincast with Palom. FF5 as mentioned earlier you could give them another jobs moveset. Garnet, Eiko, and Yuna were also Summoners. All WHM had some offensive capabilities, and the ones that don't had supporting systems to give them offensive capabilities anyway. The closest to "pure healer" you get is FF1.

All previous FF games also had a melee "ATTACK" action. In this game? Auto attack does less than nothing. Dia only worked on Undead. Only Holy worked on anything. Using Cure or Life on undead was the only way to instant kill undead monsters.

But you were never using the white mage to DPS, it was just a waste of a turn to do so.

SCH has been around since FF3, FF11 as well, and was known for being a user of both Black and White magic. The fact that a legacy job like SCH is now relegated to being a WHM clone (but with shields) already tells me Square doesn't care for tradition and is willing to sideline it for the excuse they call healer design in this game.

Scholar didn't exist in previous FF games, not the "Scholar" we have in this game. The FF3 Scholar literately had just "scan" and "peep". The 3D version gives it some red-mage levels of magic use, but it still was nothing like FF14. The White mage is a staple of FF. The scholar is not.