Quote Originally Posted by Silkerin View Post
and before someone say something stupid like its not part of the job or the lore or whatever, smns throughout the series had healing and buffing summons, some summoners had white magic, since they are still stuck to schs via arcanists, they should be use physic to at least some decent proficiency, this all could be avoided if they gave titan egi some life steal when they removed sustain
Other way around: they were White Mages that had access to summoning abilities. By that logic, we should give WHM summoning spells.

Really SMN doesn't need a healing spell like the RDM Vercure, but rather give them a healing spell that would adequately work for their pet. One option would be to replace Tri-bind for Sustain (or at least a spell people actually use). Another would be a passive trait for SMN that would vastly increase the healing potency of Physick on their pet. One more would be trait that heals the pet for a portion of the damage dealt by the SMN.

The problem isn't having a heal as good as RDM. The problem is having a heal for a pet that will die no matter how much damage to them is reduced.