(10-18-2014, 07:39 PM)Nakoli Chalahko Wrote: White Mage contentionIt's important to emphasize this answer because it confirms something else that's very important:
other ways of getting white magic, but for the current story line, only YOU are the only one learning this way.
There aren't actually like... 2.5 million warriors of light out there or anything. You're supposed to separate the in-game story from the in-game 'reality' in that there is only a small handful of Warriors of Light even though there are loads of other players running around in-game sharing that same story. That story-gameplay separation may die down a bit as they suggest that future patches will add more avenues for RPers to get into those classes (with white magic having alternate, in his words, more "nefarious" means of being attained and of course dragoons being a major focus of 3.0).
So, uh, yeah. You are perfectly justified in playing a regular Joe if being that super-special snowflake doesn't sit right with you.