Am I bad for preferring White Mage?

But to answer your question; No, absolutely not. There are aspects of WHM I find harder than SCH/AST, mainly weaving windows/mobility compared to those two, but everyone has their preferences.

Not at all!

Don’t follow along what most others would say, especially with EW changes.

WHM is beautifully designated to deliver raw heals at little to almost hardly focus on your other abilities. Which is why I like to call it the gift of “situation & spatial awareness” that we can relate to tanks; predict & when is convenient to use powerful abilities to counter that.

If anything, it’s one of amongst my mains that I’ve no regrets choosing on.

No job is objectively bad based on class fantasy. You pick whatever you like to play. People have different preferences in gameplay, and sometimes choices also depend on APM, straightforward style, proc-based gameplay, and animation effects. That's completely fine. Don't let others affect your opinion on what you want to play.

The only complaints about healers I see these days are how the job itself evolves in relation to the expected encounter design. That's a completely separate problem that's not tied to any one healer in particular.

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Originally Posted by Sylvain

Yes enjoying WHM definitely and objectively makes you a terrible player as well as a terrible person.
You should feel ashamed to enjoy a job in this game. In fact changing role wouldn't be enough to make an amend for your dispicable joy of playing WHM. You should uninstalle that game and reconsider your life choice and the impact you have on others.

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For a second, i thought I was on the WoW forums! hahaha!


(Yes, I loved your answer. Yes, I caught the satire right away. /s)

This isn't the DPS Forums we don't go: "<CLASS> is not complex so therefore it does not deserve to do high DPS and anyone that plays it is terrible, unlike MY Class."

Play what you want, if people aren't dieing that's all that matters. Books/Staves/Lazorz/YuGioh who cares.

nothin wrong with WHM and has been my main all along.

its a game, and you are supposed to enjoy a game and have fun. so, shouldnt matter what you play, since we are all playing cartoon characters in a fantasy setting... dont let what others think get you down.

at the end of the day, maybe they are just jealous they cant enjoy it as well

Same here. I play all 3 jobs but do the MSQ/dungeons/trials/Ex and savage on WHM first. It's just my favorite.

Sometimes WHM just suits your mood. Whenever I want to relax and heal a trials roulette or normal raids roulette I'll go WHM. It's definitely not my usual choice but I don't ignore it by any means. It gets the job done just fine and Im okay with that.

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Originally Posted by Snowdove

This is going to sound really stupid; I know that right up front.


I've been reading over some of the threads here, especially the one that talks about which healer is easy and which is more difficult.


There seems to be a dump on White Mage. "It's easy." "It's for noobs."


I like White Mage. I feel like a real healer, as opposed to someone who puts up barriers.


Does that make me a bad?


tbh, I've been co-levelling both White Mage and Scholar. I like Scholar because I like pets, but don't like the shield healing.


I enjoy White Mage and really love Holy. That huge blast!!! lol

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Yes you are /s

I'm joking ofc, play what you prefer and let the old men here bicker.

No, class fantasy is a good reason to pick a class. You want to enjoy the animations, flourishes, and style.

Besides the differences in challenge between healing classes is very low; they're all easy compared to the easiest DPS role. It's like a child in a Power Wheels Corvette telling a kid in a Power Wheels Jeep that they're pathetically slow, while real cars zip by on the road. Indeed WHM can be tougher to optimize than the other healers due to more limited mobility.

People like to insist that they are "better" for playing a "tougher" job in MMOs, ignoring how every MMO is designed so that thousands and thousands of people can clear tough content on every class.