Quote Originally Posted by lisaa View Post
If healer design is so awful why is WHM consistenly the most popular job? This forum is an echo chamber while everyone else is just playing the game. And holy magic is so much prettier than dirty geomancer magic. We are white mage not green and brown mage
White Mage is just the most popular Healer, not the most popular Job, and only because it is the only Healer you can choose right off the beginning of the Game and also being the most forgiving one in terms of difficulty.

As for the Magic itself, it is clearly stated in WHM and CNJ lore, that youre borrowing all your powers from Nature, from the Wind, Water and Earth to be precise. You even get it throughly explained by your Teachers how important it is to not take those Powers for granted and so on, yet current WHM tosses all that lore out of the Window and just gets generic Light Magic all over the place, even Y'shtola has a more WHM-like Spellkit than the WoL does.