Quote Originally Posted by FutileMasquerade View Post
To respond to the section I've bolded, the point of my post is that finding 'some other way to learn it' is not necessary. I've seen White Mage RPers with stolen soul crystals, or who learned the art in secret, but never a legitimate legal White Mage (I am sure there are people RPing that, I just haven't seen it). From what I have read and quoted in my original post, the ability to learn it from a Padjal happens for more people than just the WoL specifically, and that alone makes it more common than the general consensus. It can still be rare, but I think it should be treated in the way that Viera and Miqo'te are supposed to be rare.
I mean, this is where the struggle of a non-Padjali White Mage comes: the Padjali are the only open practitioners, and they have a policy of not really sharing that one. All of your bolded statements look to me like them going 'we don't usually do this, but JUST THIS ONCE', which yeah, sounds about right. Conjury is the weaker version of white magic that the common people are 'allowed' to learn.

If you're roleplaying, that's not a 'no', though: that's a 'get clever'. The main gate's closed, find a window to jump into! It's more fun anyway, you want your character to have a story, why not have the reason they're a White Mage itself be an interesting part of that instead of just 'they did the thing from the job quests but they're not the Warrior of Light so it's just a lot less interesting'? You've got two and a half other jobs to pick from if you want to play a by-the-books legal healer (Scholar has separate barriers), not even including non-playable jobs like a Far Eastern healer; I think the appeal of RPing a White Mage is that you had to go through the back channels at some point, that there is this implied darkness to someone here doing the kindest possible thing.

In the context of roleplaying as a White Mage, it's literally easier and more effective to go off the beaten path than it is to adapt the job questline. And that's actually a feature, not a bug: very few jobs raise such an immediate, open question when someone cracks it out, that imply an immediate story that you don't necessarily know.