White Mage: A Guide

[Estellios]

It's amazing for nuking which you will have to do in some situations so I'd at least carry it around if you have access to it. I usually wear that if I'm doing stuff like spiritbonding or Ifrit/Moogles with my LS and I know no one will be taking any large amount of damage and have more freedom to nuke.

For tougher fights you will definitely want to stick with your AF body, though.

[Mijin]

Which stat effects stone and wind spells? We know for blm fire and ice are magic attack, and thunder is int, but does anyone know for whm?

[Raldo]

Which stat effects stone and wind spells? We know for blm fire and ice are magic attack, and thunder is int, but does anyone know for whm?

All attack magic spells are affected by INT and magic attack potency.

[lerunes_second]

I love this post , But I don't know how that dude got close to 800 DEF. Need help please.

[Raldo]

What post, and what dude? I looked at the OP and didn't see any mention of 800 defense.

[lerunes_second]

I actually do a max DEF/VIT/Enhancing build on my WHM when running instances in non-boss situations. I'll then switch to an HP build for bosses. This is because with a high effective DEF on "trash mob" targets, you can get relatively close to the damage floor and nearly "tank" up to 4-5 trash mobs yourself with just Regen active. It's actually quite impressive how unkillable any job becomes as you near ~800 DEF on any job when tanking 50-54 mobs. On higher end targets like bosses where your fear is being 1-2 shot by TP moves (e.g. Voice of the Dragon), I'll definitely take the HP though.

I don't use La Noscean Toast though. I worked it out to actually getting more DEF boost from an Acorn Cookie with my current build due to the +%s despite the fact La Noscean has a higher max cap for divine status.

this post, this one

[Raldo]

Here's a few things to put that post into perspective.

1) He did not say his White Mage reached 800 defense, he merely said that any job becomes nigh unkillable at that level, not necessarily that he managed to get his WHM that high. To quote, he said "near ~800 defense", so we can assume he was referring to defense in the mid/high-700s.

2) That was posted way back in April, and things may have changed since then.

3) This one is the most telling. He says that he doesn't use La Noscean Toast because he gets more DEF from Acorn Cookies. This means that his base defense before food was somewhere between 500~600 defense (La Noscean Toast edges ahead of the cookie at 600 defense).

4) He may have been taking Protect into account. Is food affected by protect? My logic says no, but I've never actually looked.

Put all that together, and lets say he was at 580 base defense. Food would push him up to around 627, and protect would get him around 96, pushing him to 723ish defense. Don't forget that you can socket body/shield with defense. His video (two posts below that one) shows him wearing a meldable body/shield, so he's more than likely done that.

I hope that helps some. I don't know the guy, I'm just reading between the lines here and making some educated guesses.

[lerunes_second]

sounds cool dude, I'm at 537 with flame gear,
I guess I will try to double meld a shield.

Anyway back to Adventure Time

[Lyssa]

Don't forget Rampart for an extra Defense boost for a minute every two minutes, also comes in handy against hordes

[lerunes_second]

ok so I got Pretty close

edit: 721 With Cookie and Protect (edit Wow 826 With Rampart)
suppose I should make a list

Hand: Malevolent Mogwand
Eagle-crested round shield +34 def
Flame sergeant's tabard
Flame sergeant's sash
flame sergeant's hose
flame sergeant's jackboots
sergeant's mitts
Paragon's crown

Stonewall ring
raptorskin wristbands
Stonewall choker
Blessed ring
Blessed earing

not sure if this will help, but it was fun doing it
and now I have a healing gear and survival gear