When I think of casual, I don't really imagine someone capable of really doing White Mage melee.
I think of someone who bought all their gear off the AH, maybe has a Rajas Ring because whatever, but didn't spend 1M+ on anything for melee, especially if it wasn't a weapon.
If you're lucky they're wearing NQ Blessed gear, wturban, and a Swift, or if they're really lucky, a Goading belt. They'll often have something terrible like a Robur Mace or worse, and more likely then not they won't be wearing Blessed. That's what most other meleeWHM look like to me.
I know not everyone will have a huge budget, I know I certainly don't. But I would hope anyone looking to get clerical make sure to hammer out some justice for the cause and leave some dents, not just leave dings.
From what they gave us, Solace is definitely geared more towards healing since it entirely rewards healing no matter where you stand. Misery was a little more misplaced out the gate, to put it lightly, it rewards you for standing close to a mob, to put it bluntly, it rewards you for getting hit.
So of course I'd define Misery as frontline based on that, but I'd go on to say that Solace rewards the player better in a frontline based environment most of the time.
Should this be the case? Well, that's not the rhetoric I was going for, but I'm not going to be forcing conclusions so hard when soliciting feedback.
I'd rather place my dreams in the unlikely then the terrible.
Delay reduction doesn't stop in the rare case of you getting capped Haste. Since Misery is a stanced ability, the drawback is not using Solace, so there shouldn't be additional drawbacks.
Fencer isn't totally bad despite not being a replacement for DW. But why give TP bonus and critical hit rate under such strict conditions when you could just hand it out to White Mages under Misery in general?
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Again I ask myself and others to explain what Misery is all about. It certainly seems to be a JA that rewards the player for getting hit, or maybe standing in the action. What fits that? Is there something that could fit that to give us what we want? Or does it need a reword? I think it's a hard thing to answer very well.