WHM Have NO Natural Refresh Capability, WHY?

[Alkimi]

Don't even carry max MP gear anymore, never did really.

There's a few gear sets I used to carry which I just don't that often anymore.

Used to have an enfeebling set, but now I just cast Slow/Para in full +MND gear, sticks just as well as RDMs most of the time. Rarely carry resting gear apart from certain occasions outside Abyssea.

My MND/MAB gear set for Holy/Banish and INT/MAB set for Impact get more use.

[Myrid]

disclaimer 1: only read the first page of posts. just putting in my 2 cents

disclaimer 2: I've been playing rdm for the entirety of my FFXI career (oct 2003). WHM was my second job, leveled in around 2005. Had done everything the game had to offer at the time of CoP (wyrms, bahamut), have been a little less hardcore since then.

WHM in abyssea is completely overpowered right now as long as you have minikin monstrosity atma. Don't even need anything else for 95% of fights. Reason being: Cure V and Cure VI. Nobody else can heal for 1k hp every 3 seconds (or so) when it's often needed with such huge HP pools (and such huge damage numbers).

Outside, however, it's the exact opposite when the whm is not tagging along with a rdm or brd. In this case rdm (refresh 2), sch (enhanced sub, light arts, penury) tend to pull away as better solo healers simply due to MP conservation. This is, again, considering you're the lone healer in the group, and resting would mean death. In any fight where you can rest, it's not a problem.

My fix ideas:
For rdm/sch: Give a special cure that cures a percentage of max HP (50%?). make sure it takes abyssea buffs into account. Give it a hefty MP cost and moderate cooldown (10s?) but cast time equal to c5. So whm would still be a better healer for most cases there. Could even give this spell to whm too, not that they'd use it. Outside of abyssea, it'd pretty much be another c4.

For whm: either - Give a job trait that occasionally returns 50% of a cure's mp back to the caster. Exact potency of that trait can be adjusted for balance.
or: a spell when used under solace uses the built up (and useless) "uber holy" charge to instead restore mp. Again, exact potency can be adjusted for balance.. but idea would be to grant about as much mp back as a sch would get for their enhanced sublimation, usable about as often.

[Charismatic]

WHM is nowhere near underpowered outside of Abyssea. If you have even half-decent gear and just slap on /RDM or /SCH, you shouldn't have any MP troubles even with no refresher.
Sure, you're gaining MP at a much slower rate than inside Abyssea, but you're generally losing it at a much slower rate as well because at this point there's really no enemies outside of there that put a strain on your MP like that unless you're using some sort of blood tank on a powerful NM, and with us at Lv90 now I'm not even sure how many fights would be challenging that way anymore.

I don't know about being overpowered in Abyssea either, the main healing job being far and away the best at healing but nothing else doesn't strike me as overpowered in any way.

[Fetus]

12 pages... and going. Just give WHM Auto Refresh I and be done with it. Maybe then we can finally move past a roadblock on a trait that is overdue by 9 years or so, although it's not especially that useful anymore. But hey, we got Shield Defense Bonus which is completely useless in any situation; So to repay the insult, they could at least give us Auto Refresh.

[Daniel_Hatcher]

12 pages... and going. Just give WHM Auto Refresh I and be done with it. Maybe then we can finally move past a roadblock on a trait that is overdue by 9 years or so, although it's not especially that useful anymore. But hey, we got Shield Defense Bonus which is completely useless in any situation; So to repay the insult, they could at least give us Auto Refresh.

12 pages filled with 90% disagreeing WHM needs it, so pray tell why they'd still give it to WHM?

[Fetus]

Because SE enjoys giving WHM stuff they don't need whatsoever... like Shield Defense Bonus!

[Daniel_Hatcher]

Melee WHM?

[Hoshi]

I love my shield skill! But yeah WHM doesn't need auto-refresh as a trait lol.

[Vraelia]

I love my shield skill! But yeah WHM doesn't need auto-refresh as a trait lol.

Yeah, it's like RDMs getting Shield Mastery, which it should have been given to PLDs. lols

WHMs having Auto-Refresh is a good idea. I am going to continue to support WHMs getting this Trait.

[Daniel_Hatcher]

Yeah, it's like RDMs getting Shield Mastery, which it should have been given to PLDs. lols

WHMs having Auto-Refresh is a good idea. I am going to continue to support WHMs getting this Trait.

PLD has three tiers of it.

25 - Shield Mastery
50 - Shield Mastery II
75 - Shield Mastery III