The problem with healing

[miraidensetsu]

What's so bad about having a priestly job?

Priest powers come directly from the gods. If he heals, it's God's blessing. If he does damage, it's God's wrath. Simple like that.

But the source of Conjurer's powers are the elementals, wich mantains a relation that, IMO, is close to what Summoners have with EGIs (without actually summoning them). And White Magick is a technique for manipulating Aether created by Amdapor's magi to manipulate Aether. His powers weren't bestowed upon White Mages directly from The Twelve.

I see no sense on White Mage being a priest.

They traditionally (and in a somewhat romantic sense) represent the same values a healer does, so it kinda makes sense to me that the two are meshed together at times.

Agreed. And that's why 534/10 games name its healer as "Priest".

It's not even as if ALL healers are priestly.

Agreed again. Healers don't need to be priests. They even don't need to be good, since a healer can heal other people for selfish reasons.

Scholars are, well, just what the name says, and Astrologians are something else as well. If you don't like the theme, maybe play one of those if your dislike is bad enough.

I like the White Mage's lore. I like the idea of "mage that heals".

It's also not as if there aren't any bases for the White Mage being a mage, either. We get those skills from Conjury, and from the later job quests.

There are lore base to sustain that White Mage is a mage. A mage who use a magick technique that was created to counter Shantotto's technique.

Yes, White Mages are partially responsible for the 6th Umbral Era. HOWEVER, while it is true they corrupted white magic for their own gains, they mostly used it to defend themselves, to breath live into inanimate objects. They didn't corrupt it in the sense of using it for something bad. Even the Voidsent in Lost City aren't there because White Mages summoned them. They got summoned by Black Mages, and the caught and thus neutralized by the Amdapori.

Ultimately, the 6th Umbral Calamity was caused by White Mages. Yes, White Magic was created to be a counter for Black Magic. But it is

But the abusive use of the Aether angered the Elementals and their response was the Great Flood. That's why White Magic was outlawed for who isn't Padjal (but not conjury).

Also, did you even play 4.0 yet? Because there IS a scene where you are using healing spells if you go into that cutscene as a healer. You can even reproduce it in the inn. So you stating we never get to heal in cutscenes (outside job quests, I might add, because there are ALSO cutscenes where you heal in those; or DPS) either means you've never seen that scene while on a healer job, or you aren't far enough into the story.

I stated that I didn't[*]SAW[*] any cutscene outside the job quests where the fact the WoL is a healer were important. If I don't saw, it don't means that it didn't exist. FYI, I stopped at 3.2 (stopped to level an alt to retake the MSQ in the healer's place).

That scene with Haurchefant caused an outrage with many healers, which is likely one of the reasons that other scene was included into 4.0. Haurchefant could either be explained away by saying the wound was lethal anyway (and as a medic you can judge if a wound is or not), or you were too exhausted by the battles before. It is still very jarring, nobody will argue that away, though...

That outrage can explain why they added some interaction only on 4.0. Well, better late than never.

But the infuriating part is that the WoL done nothing. Not even tried to see if he can do something about the wound. If he was too tired, but tried anyway (and failed due to lack of MP) or said that the wound is so severe that even his best healing spells isn't enough to prevent his death), that was excusable. But he just stood there with a poker face. Maybe the development team slightly forgot that there could be healers doing the MSQ?