Quote Originally Posted by fulminating View Post
Ast and sch should be fun to play. White mage needs redesigned to be fun because it's made for a non-existent game, and no amount of papering over those cracks will address the fundamental issue. This is not remotely helped by all healers being made to fit the white mage mold, when everything is WHM+, WHM alone can only feel lacking.
I agree. Which is why I continue to narrow my eyes whenever I see the suggestion that WHM is "nearly perfect", "just a few tweaks away from being really great", etc. I've seen that take aaaaaaaall throughout Shadowbringers and Endwalker thus far, and I couldn't disagree more. If current healer design is boring and embarrassing, it's boring and embarrassing no matter which three-letter acronym describes it.

My somewhat less popular take for the fictional landscape after all of the healers are "fixed" is that AST and SCH have been meta for a brief, fleeting ten straight years. It's okay to not be the most powerful, most fun, most flexible, best healers in the game for five minutes.