Scholar has the worst design of any job in the game, and here's why.

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For the sake of a thought experiment, lets say you can exchange the DPS kit of any job in the game with your healer of choice, but in exchange, you lose all your OGCDs, save your 120s steroid. (So Temperance, Neutral Sect, Seraph). Angel whisper will also just be a standard raise, and White Wind isn't exactly a "Healer" skill, as it's used more by the DPS / Tanks to help.

You do not, however, get the Blue Mage's traits nor healing succ bonus. (For those wondering, this is a baseline of 1.3 against 1.8 multiplier for healing potency, or, put simply, ~28% weaker than what the Blue Mage achieves).

How do you see this playing out?

In your hypothetical, id pick white mage with lv 50 black mage's or dancer's proc based dps style. most of whms healing depth comes from lilies anyways.

that said, i dont think blu healing is that much better than regular healing because being constrained by the gcd makes recovery nigh impossible sometimes. I'm sure theres a decent middle ground to be found somewhere.


also healers' healing kits are also not particularly interesting either. i think the best designed heal is earthly star, but almost everything else is pretty much interchangeable unless you're spreadsheeting a fight. COpp or CU, whispering dawn or recit indom, astlum or medii? eh.. i miss when ast had time magic which could double as healing if you planned stuff right, or when scholar could micromanage the fairy embraces. but that too was lost in shb.