Whitemage new job skill (seen in benchmark)

It's an instant cure 3 that hits all party members no matter their distance and it just so happens on one specific floor of the new raid tier the party is forcefully spread so far apart and taking heavy damage the ability is practically mandatory in week one progression. This fixes WHM and makes them relevant for 1 or 2 weeks again until Yoshi-P's bae Astro can take center stage again (if it hasn't replaced SCH by that point anyway).

people are talking about an AoE tetra, similar to Indom. but WHM already have Assize though, how is that different then an AoE Tetra?

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Originally Posted by Deus_ex_Machina

people are talking about an AoE tetra, similar to Indom. but WHM already have Assize though, how is that different then an AoE Tetra?

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range... I love assize but its range just sucks x'D

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Originally Posted by Neela

range... I love assize but its range just sucks x'D

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it's 30y, like every other aoe heal tool, except for medica 2, wich is the only one with more than 30y in the whole game. it's likely that an aoe tetra will also do not have more than 30y.

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Originally Posted by Deus_ex_Machina

people are talking about an AoE tetra, similar to Indom. but WHM already have Assize though, how is that different then an AoE Tetra?

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Assize has the DPS element though, requiring the WHM to choose - a burst AoE heal with pittance for damage, or a burst AoE damage spell with pittance for healing. AoE Tetra would give WHM more flexibility to use Assize for DPS, and they could still use it for the heal if expecting a few big hits in a row.

Our FC thought it might be something similar to a chain heal or a smart heal.

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Originally Posted by deos

what really bothers me is that the skill seems to "jump" from person to person, creating time delay. the only skill currently doing this is protect, which is a buff applied before the fight (unless reapplying on rezz'ed ppl) and thus not time-important. but if this were to be a heal skill, the time delay from activation until the last person is hit by it could be fatal.

due to this, i don't think it is a healing skill. most likely some kind of buff, maybe even one normally applied before a fight like protect.

we will see... lets hope for the best, WHM needs something big

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I was thinking the same thing. My thoughts were leaning towards it increasing magical defense even further than protect. I believe the majority of AoE used by mobs is magic based, so I see this as being quite useful for WHM who is currently lacking in the dmg mitigation department. SCH has Fey Covenant, and I am no sure if AST has some kind of increased magical defense, but it would be a skill I would love to have for my WHM.

An improved version of protect.

I've been looking at it, and if you look, the WHM first casts it on the PLD, and then the effect appears on the other two shortly after at the same time. It doesn't operate like protect where it will go on one person at a time until it hits everyone.

Perhaps it's an effect that will try to equalize health percentages by redistributing health

Or some sort of bounce heal, like cascade was in WoW that will prefer the most injured targets until it hits a certain amount.

Or some sort of aoe defensive.

If it's just Cure 3 with a different label, i'm out.