Quote Originally Posted by Shurrikhan View Post
Personally I could go either way on the spell wheel in regards to BLM. FFXIV has little lore to stand in the way of either decision. If to further a class niche, my slight preference would be towards mastering the deadly effects of the three dark elements, and setting our utility from a purely offensive standpoint. It feels more devastating yet fragile to me, in more ways than just being a glass cannon, and I think I'd really enjoy that.

I'd also enjoy being able to use every element, but that feels more like a Conjurer to me, or a hybrid along the lines of a true jack-of-all-trades elementalist, for whom precise coordination of all six is paramount. But that's an altogether different feeling to the class/job, and not what I'd imagine of a Black Mage.

In regards to white mage, I enjoy having some utility and the light side of the elemental wheel does serve that purpose pretty well. It could certainly use something else, but I usually find an absolute "pure healer" only fun to play when in a raid taking enough damage that I don't realize I'm being limited to such an enclosed role, and even then I'd prefer to disperse, focus, amplify, etc that healing through other (not strictly healing-related) mechanics.
I know what you mean, speaking of whm mostly if they had a different type of spell would help a lot on giving a more dispersed role, but i played several times as whm on hamlet defense events and it was a really hard job to keep every npc healthy enough, you could spend all the event time heLing like crazy without-noticing how much time did pass already, if they make the fights hard enough you wont need anything else in your role same as a tank your job ends until the boss is down