Quote Originally Posted by Garland
I'm not allowing some reject that won't spend the extra time to get a real healer to tell me to ignore my main job and only use my sub. In fact, if it wouldn't completely hinder my pt invites, I'd sub something that can't heal, so that I'd be sure to be invited as my main job. Summoner is the only job that's invited solely for its sub as often as it's invited for both. Summoners are never invited solely to summon.
I feel the exact same way. That is one of the main reasons why I will not be going Black Mage/White Mage. I'm leveling a red mage sub first and foremost for Phalanx and Fast Cast. I am also doing it because I am not a backup healer, I am an emergency healer. My job during the normal grind will be to nuke, not to throw out heals (it's quite simple, I would have been a white mage if I wanted to do that). I will however heal when there is an emergency and someone is about to die and the white mage has the aggro for some reason. So I may not get as many parties as the Black Mage/White Mage. But if those parties want me to play second healer, I'm glad I'm not getting them.