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The White Mage (Japanese: 白魔道士, or しろまどうし in earlier games without kanji support) is a character class (or job) in Square Enix's Final Fantasy
series of computer role playing games. It is often also referred to as White Wizard or Priest. In Final Fantasy III, a White Mage evolves into a more powerful form - the Shaman.

The White Mage is a portrayed as a skilled cleric who casts curative magic. Typically a poor physical combatant, with a limited repertoire of attack spells and an inability to utilize heavy weaponry or armor, their primary use is support for other members of a battle party. There are traditionally a limited number of attack-based white magic spells (such as "Holy") which add some offensive capabilities to the class, but these spells are typically not available until the mage is much stronger. Because of the limited use of the class in combat, the White Mage has occasionally been integrated with the Summoner class.

The White Mage has appeared in the following games in the Final Fantasy series:

Final Fantasy
Final Fantasy III
Final Fantasy IV
Final Fantasy V
Final Fantasy X-2
Final Fantasy XI
Final Fantasy Tactics
Final Fantasy Tactics Advance

In addition, the characters MingWu (Final Fantasy II) and Rosa Farrell (Final Fantasy IV) can be roughly categorized as White Mage-like characters, as can Aerith Gainsborough (Final Fantasy VII). Garnet Til Alexandros XVII and Eiko Carol (Final Fantasy IX), and Yuna (Final Fantasy X) incorporate a number of characteristics of both the White Mage class and the Summoner class.

Dress

Like most Final Fantasy job classes, White Mages have a standard outfit/costume. The White Mage is usually depicted as wearing a long, white cloak/robe. The robe has long sleeves and a hood that covers the Mage's hair. Normally, female White Mages wear the hood over their hair, while Male White Mages normally do not wear the hood at all. This has lead most gamers to believe that the only practitioners of White Magic are female, seeing as most White Mage models have the hood over the head. The first male White Mages did not appear until Final Fantasy III. Another feature of the robe is the red, triangular patterns on the cuffs of the sleeves and bottoms of the robes.

White Mage in Final Fantasy games

Final Fantasy

The white mage is one of the character choices posed to the player upon starting Final Fantasy 1. The white mage is a poor attacker though has moderate defense and more HP than a theif/ninja or black mage/wizard.

Final Fantasy III

The White Mage is one of the first few jobs the protagonist could aquire. They could use all White magic up to level seven. While their upgraded job, the Shaman could use level eight as well.

Final Fantasy IV

Rosa Farrell is the White mage-like character in Final Fantasy IV. She is able to use staves as well as Bow and arrows. Her HP is moderately low however when using the correct arrows can be an effective fighter.

Final Fantasy V

Final Fantasy X-2

In Final Fantasy X-2, White Mages are a very useful class in the game. In this game there is no character who really is a white mage, but with the garment grid battle system, the three playable characters (Yuna, Rikku, and Paine) could change into white mages almost any time they want to, with the mage outfit and all.

Final Fantasy XI

In the MMORPG incarnation of the series, the white mage specializes in healing and restorative magic, as well as enhancing and some enfeebling magic. White mages use clubs and staves almost exclusively and may also equip shields. White Mage abilities include Divine Seal, which doubles the power of the next curative spell; traits include Auto-Regen, which gives constant HP regeneration, and Divine Veil, which transforms a status-removing spell (i.e. Erase, Poisona, etc.) from a single target to Area of Effect (AOE) when combined with Divine Seal. The White Mage's 2-hour ability, Benediction, instantly restores full HP to the whole party. The downside of using Benediction during battle is an extreme increase in enmity toward the White Mage due to sheer amount of HP healed.

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