Best Buffing Job?Follow

I know this sounds redundant, but its been a long time since I've played, so I wanted to get some input from the masters.
White Mage is still the best support job for a party, right? By support I mean backline stuff... healing, buffing, debuffing. I know there's talk of Scholar and Red Mage, but White Mage is still king in this category, right?

Honestly if you want a guaranteed group spot:

Whm / geo / bard

I dont want to say level all 3, but if you do, you will never be waiting for a group. The gear requirements definitely make it so bard is the quickest/easiest to gear, as you can get a 3 song instrument relatively easy, the rest isnt to hard to get.

I would say whm and geo are about even as far as gear requirements, but both become useful very quickly.


Honestly there are no support jobs to avoid. Cor is golden, rdm and sch are still useable for their stun abilities.

I'd make a slight distinction between healer and buffer/support, though WHM certainly does both. BRD and GEO are both superb buff/debuffers. WHM's main job is to keep people alive with cures and status removal/prevention. Yes WHM has good buffs too but cure bombs are still their bread and butter. Any of them will pretty much guarantee you a spot in endgame activities as long as you're competent and averagely geared.

I wouldn't say GEO is much harder to get endgame ready than BRD, but it'll certainly be more costly. Hardest part is just leveling Geomancy and Handbell at a respectable pace, whereas BRDs can at least Threnody spam worms to get their skills up. I'd probably say GEO winds up being more "fun" since you won't have to deal with the asinine party swap meta that's persisted over the years for BRD.