Quote Originally Posted by Urthdigger View Post
FFXIV actually doesn't need a second healer class. At least, not right now.

The question is "What would this new job do that WHM cannot?", and there isn't really a lot that they can do. WHM already gets two tiers of cures, an area of effect cure, and a heal over time. A lot of the responses people are giving are things like "Make a hybrid class that heals, like RDM or SCH from FFXI." Thing is though, we already have those.
Uhh, decent dps for one? Whm can't do decent dps and no, we don't have a real job that has a decent ability to heal and maintain dps, if you say Brd I may resort to violence. Brd -can not- heal well whatsoever, I'm sorry but 300 per cure is a joke.

Quote Originally Posted by Urthdigger View Post
How would a RDM differ from a paladin with cure set in any way? How is Scholar any different than a thaumaturge with cure set? Being a healer is mostly about that one ability. True, a marauder using cure isn't going to be as effective as a white mage, but anyone who thinks that a hybrid should heal as well as the best healer needs to have their head examined.
Again, dps. Pld can't dps and Pld also can't really heal well seeing as it has such a small MP pool and it's main source of getting MP back is by tanking which it can't do if it's pretending to be a Rdm.