Quote Originally Posted by Minali View Post
Agreed, although I am not sure if CBU3 truly didn't understand this distinction between fae and angels.
The first White Mage Relic (Thyrus) looks like this:


What does that look like? If we go by lore reasons, it looks like an elemental. But note the wing pattern. Now look at the wing pattern on the scholar Seraphism.

If we go into iconography, a seraph is a 6-wing class of angel. No two sources agree on anything other than having 6 wings. Any other angel in theology gets less and less human-like the closer to god they are. Like, just like with Shiva and Ifrit, relying on a real world interpretation inside a fantasy game is just silly.

But this is why people make these arguments. It's very clear that the white mage, scholar and astrologian are "too samey" to the point the developers have confused the lore for the healers, and have taken them in directions that might have been more appropriate on another.

If CBU3 really wants to, and they should, they should take apart all 4 healers and give them strictly different kits, lore, and job quests reflecting such going back to level 1. I like playing white mage, and I like swapping to SCH and AST, but they play so samey that I will sometimes forget to even summon the fairy. The fairy in ARR was powerful, but also would get KO'd by monsters. The fairy now is barely more than an auto cure-1 heal bot.