Quote Originally Posted by Dale View Post
He's not ok with it
Bah. You don't have any others you can play with to get into the tanking role, are are you just ok letting it go?

Sorry, it's just hard to picture you as a mage after so long you being a Paladin. Then again, me on a Female Dragoon avatar is bound to be throwing you off a bit. >.>

As far as the healing game goes, you're talking frustrations around 4 man events on mechanics designed primarily around 8-man. In which case we have Scholar to Consider. If White Mage had no punishment for the Regen Ticks on Medica II and Regen, there'd be little need for the shielding mechanics that I find to be a quintessential mechanic of Scholar.

And I don't think MP management is a significant enough punishment. Especially considering how MP light trash-monster pulls tend to be. Remember, there's no hate cap in this game. (Not Volatile Enmity either) Without HoT hate, there would be virtually no way for a healer to take hate in this game unless they increased curing enmity for burst healing, which, to me, would be an even worse nightmare.