Quote Originally Posted by Sigma860 View Post
That picture is so true. Then you click the HP Restored tab and it's all White Mages in the top 10 spots.
Yeah. You get high heal numbers with WHM without even trying. It just happens.

And Summoner... Well, it's not that other jobs can never match Summoner's damage in Frontlines. Dragoon and Black Mage, for instance, can do just as well. But with them it takes good judgment, skills, and precision to pull that off. Summoners can do it with very, very low effort. If a job makes mediocre or even bad players perform just as well or better than very good players on other jobs, there is a balance issue there. And that works not only at the individual level (ie bumping the performance of an individual player) but also affects the entire match more systematically if the number of summoners is very different across the three teams or one team has summoner pre-mades.

Scholar, on the other hand, can sometimes deal even more damage than summoners. But since 95% of it comes from a slow-damaging AOE dot, it just gets healed off and is not nearly as impactful as summoner. It would be a different matter entirely if the every job didn't have infinite instant heal capacity (recuperate + potion). But as it is, the AOE dot doesn't really "wear out" the enemy team as it's supposed to. People heal off and when MP gets slow they just pot it back.