WHM gets the short stick

[Jinrya-Geki]

whm enmity is fine. more regen, less cure bomb. profit.



only gloves and breeches. boots are for bard (no whm in their right mind should ever sacrifice the ehnanced regen). cowl is useless all around. there's not a lot WHM can improve upon outside of AF and those two DL pieces. BLM can increase damage output by quite a lot with increasingly better triple melds.



blm is a front-loaded glass cannon dps class. giving them better MP management would make them completely overpowered and preferable to melee in all instances. they almost already are, anyway. and if whm has mp management on par with blm or worse, who do you expect to heal garuda? ifrit X? rivenroad hard? bard? get out.



and even without thundaga, thunder-thundara still does farrrrrr more damage (single target) unless your gear is completely awful, and should *still* do more damage unless the mob is specifically weak to stone or specifically weak to wind.

as far as sleepga- not only is it useful but it's pretty damn vital. but you forgot about its baby cousin, sleep. both are clutch. whm has nothing comparable to sleepga.

i'm not sure what you're getting at with your post but from the pov of an experienced healer/dps it seems silly.

My point about Darklight, is that the gear is way more useful for white mage than black mage, Looks at the Imperial Jester hat, that thing is specifically made for white mage. Yet the DoW hat can be used by any DoW.

They have two good spells, while we only have thundara combo. Fire sucks up way too much MP and is AOE only. Whm has a choice of to make two spells single target line, or just use the aoes. Which is really effective against groups of mobs. Hence why I see groups of white mages used to farm taper for ifrit. Situationally white mage can be a better DD. And look at the white mage run with the moogles, yes black mage can do the same, but you can clearly see white mages can be awesome too.

If there were another healing role, and people gave white mage a chance to DD, I bet you anything they could DD very well. Just like a white mage/nin with a kraken club would wreck havoc on people in pvp Balista.

White Mage will be useful 100% of the time, versus black mage which will be 75% if the mob is lightning/earth based. Some instances prove that blm isn't needed either.