Quote Originally Posted by miraidensetsu View Post
That is one thing I dislike WHM: They're treated as some sort of priest
They really did go hog wild on this lately and it doesn't fit the lore that well, since nearly every White Mage is a Padjal, not a priest.

Or, at least, have the WHM quests and new skills to be more in line with what's going on. His quests don't touch on the war of the magi (that was battled by White Mages) or the fact that White Magic (and Black Magic) is pretty much outlawed on Eorzea, just purify, purify and purify some more.
White Magic isn't illegal. The rulers of Gridania are White Mages. The Elementals of the Twelveswood just decide who is allowed to be one and that's usually Padjal (and us, because we're special). Black Magic is kinda sorta illegal but you can see how well that's enforced in the BLM job quests.

And I saw no integration with the fact WoL being healer on MSQ. He hasn't even try to heal someone who dies in front of him. He hasn't even tried to raise Haurchefant.
This bugged the hell out of me. There's so many of them where people are running around dying and need a healer and the WoL just stands there like a chump, right after using LB3 and bringing up an entire raid team from the brink of death! It was nice when they acknowedged that healers do exist in Stormblood's MSQ. The dichotomy between death and "death" is an RPG staple though, that isn't going anywhere.

Quote Originally Posted by Transient_Shadow View Post
So I ask every healer here. Please! Post your ideas. Post your complaints. Post anything and everything that will get SE's attention and let them know that we need something more the next expansion other than thematic repeat of white mage!
I'm definitley concerned about a thematic repeat of White Mage, given what we saw in job quests in Stormblood. But I'm more concerned about a mechanical repeat. As it stands right now, how would they make another healer that doesn't play the same as what we already have except with a different coat of paint? That doesn't really help anybody.

If they can come up with something new mechanically and they want to give that a bit of an edge? Okay, sure. But it's probably Dancer, and I don't see that as particularly grimdark. Not to mention that all the shared healing gear is shared, and I don't think they want White Mages to look like Black Mages.