5.X WHM Change Wishlist

This ability should be changed to actually be an "aura of water" around the healer and nearby party members. Either giving them a shield/damage reduction and/or even some sort of stat buff? Not sure about recast length.

This is the only ability I have removed from my hotbar since ShB started. I'd very much like it to work how I described above. I'd love if it was an AoE buff of some sort to the party.

Actually, life for me would be much easier if the afflatus spells were oGCD.

I personally don't trust square enix when it comes to healer changes. I would rather whm left alone then given square enix's version of an "upgrade".

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Originally Posted by Rasikko

Actually, life for me would be much easier if the afflatus spells were oGCD.

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Sure, since you'd then make us absurdly overpowered.

Oh, except of course for the 5+ oGCD weaves you have to do per minute, which you now have only Dia to leave space for (twice per minute) unless you use Regen.

But what's disgusting amounts of a little clipping in the face of an extra 1400 healing and 450 damage potency per minute?...

Helluuu boom boom

For me, those changes can be made for 5.2:

Return to WHM:

Protect
Type: Ability
Cast: Instant
Recast: 90s
Effect: Reduces damage taken by a party member or self by 20%. It doesn't stack with Divine Benison, SCH or AST shields.
Duration: 10s
Cost: 1 Lily

Aero 3
Type: Spell
Cast: 2.5s
Recast: 2.5s (GCD)
Range: 25y
Radius: 5y
Effect: Deals wind damage with a potency of 50 to target and all enemies nearby it.
Additional Effect: Wind damage over time
Potency: 40
Duration: 24s
Cost: 700MP

Change:

Fluid Aura: Add damage
Presence of Mind: Reduce recast to 120s

1. Get rid of Lilies. They weren't compelling or even needed in Stormblood, and they're even more pointless now. We've never needed clones of Cure II and Medica tied to an unnecessary meter between Tetragrammaton and precasting Cures.
2. Bring back Aero III.
2. Bring back Stoneskin.
4. Return Fluid Aura's damage and knockback.

Also, one role skill request: bring back Protect, but in the way its implemented in PvP.

I don't think WHM will see any significant changes for pretty much the rest of this expansion, unless SE screw up royally and overbuff AST, in which case I can see Presence of Mind getting a CD reduction but that would be the absolute extent of it.

Something I would like to see is Fluid Aura becoming something actually useful, be it by doing damage, being a damage down debuff akin to Reprisal, a means of generating a Lily, or literally anything that isn't a worthless bind effect.

All I really want (unless we can get an overhaul) is getting Aero 3 back or at least a 2nd DoT with another time. it really breaks up the monotony when you gotta keep track of another DoT. same thing with sch also.

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Originally Posted by Silver-Strider

I don't think WHM will see any significant changes for pretty much the rest of this expansion, unless SE screw up royally and overbuff AST, in which case I can see Presence of Mind getting a CD reduction but that would be the absolute extent of it.

Something I would like to see is Fluid Aura becoming something actually useful, be it by doing damage, being a damage down debuff akin to Reprisal, a means of generating a Lily, or literally anything that isn't a worthless bind effect.

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I doubt they will ever touch WHM before 6.0. Unless there are something utterly broken, like PI on 4.0, that was fixed on 4.1.

AST overbuff was never an issue that forced them to feel the urge to give some spell to WHM mid-patch. At most, they did some potency buffs to band aid the situation, but don't solve nothing.