A few suggestions for WHM

Instead of Esuna's lousy "potential free cast" nonsense, make Esuna cure a buff and potentially add a status resistance buff for idk 10 or so seconds making the target immune to debuffs. Chance shouldn't be too rare for it never to happen (like esuna) but not too common that is overpower some mechanic (could be negated by boss-mechanic debuffs like Ultima's stacks on tanks). Chance: 40%. Cureable debuffs would be resisted (poison, attribu down, sleep, etc)

Cure III: Additional trait, resets buff timers (or adds a specific amount of time to them). It costs a chunk of mp and is very situational. I pretty much Medica II/I over this every time since most of the time I'm dealing with raid-wide damage. I know this would make Cure III pretty amazing in other senses. Perhaps this could also be a "chance to proc" skill. I think with would be great as an alternative to prolonging regens/other buffs. Since atm I was thinking this could only reset regen buffs, there may (or may not) be arguments made for resetting other buffs.

That was pretty much it.

So you are saying White Mages need buffs? Because these both seem like straight linear buffs. And I personally think they don't need any and are in more than a good place- but that is only my opinion.

On a more balance-minded level, wouldn't that sort of extra utility in Esuna make it overshadow a Scholar's Leeches ability entirely? That seems like it would make White Mages be picked over Scholars in certain fights.

I didn't say White Mage is in need of buffs. I was making suggestions (xpac or whatev). This is a Whm post as I don't play SCH (beyond lvl 34 yet). SCH Leeches could get something in the same vein in return (but not the same thing).

WHM should be picked over SCH because they rox :3. But in all seriousness, this post was coming from someone who mains WHM through the majority of content. You have to admit, the Esuna "perk" is stupid at best. It already costs pennies and it's rare that I would need to used it more than once that the free cast would still be up anyway. If anything, there should be a trait (sigh... a trait...) that would make Leeches/Esuna cure all curable debuffs on a target (which is something I can foresee in the future). But the Esuna perk is silly and SCH don't even have that. I highly doubt that even with the Esuna change would be a game breaker to make people play WHM over SCH. Cure III sure, but all of these change would likely come at some sort of increase for SCH/AST.

Sounds like the Astra ability from the FFTA series. I will have to say that the whole preventative schtick belongs to scholar in this game, so the fact you're giving it to WHM is an interesting change from canon. It is interesting and I'd like it to eappear. Maybe on AST.

As far as the free cast goes, it only makes sense from the perspective that WHM gets a lot of spell procs. I also agree it is useless mechanically and doesn't quite fit the char's theme. Unfortunately, I don't think it really needs buffing either, so the fact esuna is sometimes free is just a nice piece of trivia.

I would really like an ability that removes all status effects though, considering barriers like adlo actually prevent status effects if attacks don't break through the barrier and deal 0 damage. Maybe we'll see it appear in a WHM LB or something.

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Originally Posted by DawgPilez

it's rare that I would need to used it more than once that the free cast would still be up anyway

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The chance of Esuna costing no MP is actually tied into the spell directly. That is, each time you cast Esuna, you have a 20% chance that it will be free. The misconception comes from a bad localization of the tooltip. It has been fixed since then, but people still believe it's supposed to proc a buff that affects the NEXT cast (the damage had already been done).

So yea, the 20% chance actually affects each skill you cast (and because of this, you won't notice it unless you watch your MP bar), not a buff for the next Esuna to be free (which would have a proc icon and icon border change).