The White Mage and You (Guide)

The White Mage and You: An attempt at a comprehensive guide

Firstly, I'm not a hardcore raider by any stretch of the imagination. I've been casually playing healing classes for 10 years, so I can find my way around a healing class fairly well by now (I think). This guide is primarily aimed at White Mages, but some of the information may be useful to Scholars and beyond. Also, this is my first attempt at writing any sort of class guide, so bear with me. :P

The White Mage

The White Mage is a healing class that stems from a 30 Conjurer and 15 Arcanist. You can obtain the class change quest from the Conjurer's guild master in Gridania. Now onto the skills... (the Global Cooldown, or GCD, will be assumed to be 2.5 seconds. Spells with a cast time over 2.5 seconds will be calculated accordingly)

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Stone I (lv1) - Deals earth damage with a potency of 140. Additional Effect: Heavy +40% Duration: 20s (Cast Time: 2.5 Recast Time: 2.5 Range: 25)
(@50 this spell costs 133MP, dealing 1.05 potency per MP, and 140 potency per GCD.)

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Cure I (lv2) - Restores target's HP. Cure Potency: 400 Additional Effect: 15% chance next Cure II will cost no MP Duration: 15s(Cast Time: 2.5 Recast Time: 2.5 Range: 30)
(@50 this spell costs 133MP, healing 3.01 potency per MP, and 400 potency per GCD.)

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Aero I (lv4) - Deals wind damage with a potency of 50. Additional Effect: Wind damage over time Potency: 25 Duration: 18s(Cast Time: Instant Recast Time: 2.5 Range: 25)
(@50 this spell costs 106MP, dealing 1.87 potency per MP over 18 seconds, and 200 potency per GCD over 18 seconds. This effect stacks with Aero II.)

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Cleric Stance (lv6) - Swaps current INT and MND attribute ratings, while increasing potency of attack spells by 10% and reducing potency of healing spells by 20%. Effect ends upon reuse.(Cast Time: Instant Recast Time: 5 Range: Self) This ability is off the GCD.
(Please make sure you don't have this up when trying to heal in a group setting. Any DoT spells you apply while this is in effect will continue to deal the bonus damage even if you cancel it. Also, canceling/activating this after casting Holy but before the spell detonation, has no impact on the spell; has to be be active/inactive BEFORE the cast.)

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Protect (lv8) - Increases the physical defense of all party members within range of target. Duration: 30m(Cast Time: 3.0 Recast Time: 2.5 Range: 30)
(@50 this spell costs 266MP, this spell will be enhanced to also increase Magic Defense at lv16 for CNJ/WHM.)

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Medica I (lv10) - Restores own HP and the HP of all nearby party members. Cure Potency: 300(Cast Time: 2.5 Recast Time: 2.5 Range: Self Radius: 15)
(@50 this spell costs 372MP, healing 0.81 potency per MP per target, and 300 potency per GCD per target.)

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Raise (lv12) - Resurrects target to a weakened state.(Cast Time: 8.0 Recast Time: 2.5 Range: 30)
(@50 this spell costs 798MP, at lv28 CNJ/WHM this spell gets enhanced to allow its cast during combat.)

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Fluid Aura (lv15 QUEST) - Deals water damage with a potency of 150. Additional Effect: 15-yalm knockback and Bind Duration: 6s(Cast Time: Instant Recast Time: 30 Range: 5) This ability is off the GCD.
(@50 this spell costs 0MP, this spell will knock back the target directly away from your character.)

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Esuna (lv18) - Removes a single detrimental effect from target. Additional Effect: 20% chance next Esuna will cost no MP(Cast Time: 1.0 Recast Time: 2.5 Range: 30)
(@50 this spell costs 186MP, this ability will only remove ONE detrimental effect per cast. Also, the 20% chance for free cast doesn't have a corresponding buff, so you can't tell when/for how long you will be able to benefit from the free cast.)

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Stone II (lv22) - Deals earth damage with a potency of 170.(Cast Time: 2.5 Recast Time: 2.5 Range: 25)
(@50 this spell costs 159MP, dealing 1.07 potency per MP, and 170 potency per GCD.)

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Repose (lv26) - Inflicts target with Sleep. Duration: 30s Cancels auto-attack upon execution.(Cast Time: 2.5 Recast Time: 2.5 Range: 30)
(@50 this spell costs 212MP, the duration of the sleep will halve in duration for each subsequent cast on the same target. Also, the target's enmity table will freeze while sleeping, so no new enmity can be generated on that target until the sleep is broken.)

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Presence of Mind (lv30 WHM QUEST) - Increases spell speed. Duration: 10s(Cast Time: Instant Recast Time: 300 Range: Self) This ability is off the GCD.
(@50 this spell costs 0MP, increased spell speed by about 15%.)

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Cure II (lv30 QUEST) - Restores target's HP. Cure Potency: 650 Additional Effect: 15% chance next Cure III will restore critical HP Duration: 15s(Cast Time: 2.0 Recast Time: 2.5 Range: 30)
(@50 this spell costs 266MP, healing 2.44 potency per MP, and 650 potency per GCD.)

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Stoneskin (lv34) - Creates a barrier around target that absorbs damage totaling 10% of target's maximum HP. Duration: 30m(Cast Time: 3.0 Recast Time: 2.5 Range: 30)
(@50 this spell costs 266MP, at lv36 CNJ/WHM this ability will be enhanced to absorb damage totaling 18% of target's max HP.)

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Regen (lv35 WHM QUEST) - Grants healing over time effect to target. Cure Potency: 150 Duration: 21s(Cast Time: Instant Recast Time: 2.5 Range: 30)
(@50 this spell costs 186MP, healing 5.65 potency per MP over 21 seconds, and 1050 potency per GCD over 21 seconds.)

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Shroud of Saints (lv38) - Reduces enmity by half. Additional Effect: Refresh Refresh Potency: 60 Duration: 15s(Cast Time: Instant Recast Time: 120 Range: Self) This ability is off the GCD.
(@50 this spell costs 0MP, the enmity reduction is instant for all targets you currently have enmity on. This ability is enhanced at lv48 CNJ/WHM to increase the Refresh potency to 80. Refresh restores MP.)

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Divine Seal (lv40 WHM QUEST) - Increases healing magic potency by 30%. Duration: 15s(Cast Time: Instant Recast Time: 60 Range: Self) This ability is off the GCD.
(@50 this spell costs 0MP. If a Regen/Medica II is placed on a target while this is active, it will continue to heal for the increased amount until it expires, even if this wears off beforehand. Furthermore, Regen/Medica II casted while this is active CANNOT be overridden by the same spells without this active, as they will be less powerful.)

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Cure III (lv42) - Restores HP of all party members within range of target. Cure Potency: 550(Cast Time: 2.5 Recast Time: 2.5 Range: 30 Radius: 4)
(@50 this spell costs 505MP, healing 1.09 potency per MP per target, and 550 potency per GCD per target.)

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Holy (lv45 WHM QUEST) - Delivers a magic attack with a potency of 240 to all nearby enemies. Additional Effect: Stun Duration: 4s(Cast Time: 3.0 Recast Time: 2.5 Range: Self Radius: 8)
(@50 this spell costs 532MP, dealing 0.45 potency per MP per target, and 192 potency per GCD per target. The stun duration will reduce by half for each consecutive application on a target.)

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Aero II (lv46) - Deals wind damage with a potency of 50. Additional Effect: Wind damage over time Potency: 40 Duration: 12s(Cast Time: 2.5 Recast Time: 2.5 Range: 25)
(@50 this spell costs 133MP, dealing 1.57 potency per MP over 12 seconds, and 210 potency per GCD over 12 seconds. This effect stacks with Aero I.)

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Benediction (lv50 WHM QUEST) - Restores all of a target's HP.(Cast Time: Instant Recast Time: 300 Range: 30) This ability is off the GCD.
(@50 this spell costs 0MP.)

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Medica II (lv50) - Restores own HP and the HP of all nearby party members. Cure Potency: 200 Additional Effect: Regen Cure Potency: 100 Duration: 15s(Cast Time: 3.0 Recast Time: 2.5 Range: Self Radius: 20)
(@50 this spell costs 452MP, healing 1.55 potency per MP over 15 seconds per target, and 560 potency per GCD over 12 seconds per target.)

Solo Play

Soloing as a CNJ/WHM is lackluster at best. Firstly, you'll want to be in Cleric Stance, as this will drastically improve your ability to deal damage. For optimal potency per second (PPS? lol), you'll want to start off with Aero II followed up by Aero I, (then Thunder, if you crossed into it) then proceed to spam Stone II. If your DoTs wear off and the target is still over 50% HP, its worth it to reapply them. If you don't have Aero II, then start with a Stone I/II and an Aero immediately after, then spam Stone I/II. Sometimes its worth it to cast Stoneskin on yourself prior to pulling if you think you might get an add or its a higher level monster. If you are doing a quest or something where there are multiple monsters attacking you at once, you can use Sleep to make things easier (or spam Holy to make things more interesting). Don't forget that you can use Fluid Aura off the global cooldown to give your self a little boost to PPS as well as reduce damage taken via the knockback (nifty for interrupting spell casts too). Not much else to say about this.

Fate Play

Doing fates as a CNJ/WHM is usually easy. The main exception being Fates with a single boss, as we usually don't do enough damage to get gold solo. However, on escorts/kill many monster fates, just spamming Aero I on as many targets as possible is a pretty sure fire way to get gold. If you happen to have Holy and know where the monsters will be spawning from, you can get a little more XP by just standing there and spamming Holy (watch your MP, Holy drains it quick). If you decide to group to do Fates, you pretty much do what was said before BUT you now also need to pay attention to your group. Please heal and raise your party members when doing Fates. If you are doing a Fate and there are on a handful of you, it would be a good idea to form a group so you all can share each others participation as well as making it easier for you to keep track of their HP. If you decide not to group up, it would still be nice to pay attention to the HP of whoever the boss/monsters are targeting. When you have something selected, you can see their target to the right of their HP bar (along with their target's HP). Lastly, please don't kill lambs.

Group Play

This is it, where you should be spending most of your time whilst a CNJ/WHM. Obviously your role is the heal and try to keep everyone alive. My first bit of advice: people WILL die, and there is (usually) nothing you can do about it, so don't get discouraged by it. Sometimes it will be your fault, sometimes not, just learn from it and move on. Don't feel bad if the tank or the damage dealer insists on standing in bad and dieing. Feel free to inform them of their wrongdoing, and if they persist, focus your attention on those that are doing their job correctly so your group has a higher chance at success. Now onto the gameplay parts.

I will be talking as if you are already level 50, or have the majority of the skills unlocked.

• Pre-Pull: Make sure everyone has Protect, and it would be good practice to ensure that everyone also has Stoneskin. Outside of combat you will regenerate mana very quickly, and Stoneskin has a 30min duration so you don't need to worry about the cast being wasted. Furthermore, the damage absorbed by Stoneskin does NOT generate enmity, so it will help the tank grab agro since you won't need to heal for a few more seconds. This would also be the time to coordinate with your group on whether or not you will be using Sleep on any targets. If so, its helpful to mark the targets that will be slept.
  
  
• Trash: Sometimes trash monsters can hit the tank harder than bosses. I highly recommend you keep Regen up on the tank at ALL times after the pull (if you Stoneskin'd the tank, try and wait until Stoneskin drops). Regen is the most mana efficient spell you have, and sometimes it alone will be enough to keep your tank topped off on HP. Be aware of monster AoEs and whether or not one of your group members is about to get hit by one. If you are familiar with the instance and the damage the monsters can deal, you might be able to get away with just placing a Regen on the damaged members and letting them heal up slowly. If you are unfamiliar, it would be best to get them topped off quickly with a Cure I/II (depending on damage taken) since they may take damage again in a moment. If the Cure I/II won't be enough to top them off, but it will be close, I'd recommend following up the Cure with a Regen instead of another Cure (if time permits). If you had to sleep any targets, try and be away of the duration left on the sleep, and if you need to refresh it. If people are taking very little damage and the pull is under control, throwing in some damage spells to help speed up the run. Only switch to Cleric Stance if you are confident in your ability to manage it. If you get aggro from anything, please avoid running around like a chicken with your head cut off... Simply bring it to the nearest tank so that they can quickly peel the mobs off of you. If no such tank exists, feel free to Sleep/Shroud of Saints/Fluid Aura to keep the mobs off you as long as possible. Don't forget to use Sprint, CNJ/WHM currently has no use for TP outside of Sprint.
  
  
• Bosses: (Everything from the Trash sections applies here as well.) Please, please, please communicate with your group on your strategy for the boss. What the boss will be doing, when and how the group will react. If no one in the group is sure, a quick trip to Google could make the process much easier. If in a larger group (8+), talk with the other healers on who will be doing what. Some bosses may be doing huge AoE damage, in which the you might be focusing on Medica and Regen, and maybe the other healer(s) should be focusing on the tank. Or if there are a lot of debuffs in the fight, maybe designate one healer to debuff (so you don't all waste mana trying to cure the same debuff). Enmity is usually less of a problem for healers during boss fights, however, if there are intervals in which additional monsters spawn, it might be wise to have your Shroud of Saints ready to shave of some Enmity after a few seconds so the tank can grab them faster. Also, just like trash pulls, please don't run around in circles if you get aggro, please run towards the tank that is supposed to tank them so he can grab enmity. If you and your tank are comfortable with it, you can use Fluid Aura to quickly knock an add towards the tank. Finally, during all boss fights, please be aware of the environment. I know you'll be putting most of your attention on the group window, but the group window doesn't kill people, bad stuff on the ground does (usually). Stay on your toes, and if someone else is a little less nimble, be prepared to throw a heal on them should they decide that /dancing in bad is a good idea.

Enmity and Overhealing

Enmity is how the monsters in this game choose who they will attack. All healing and damage done produces enmity. As a healer, it is of paramount importance to make sure you aren't overhealing TOO much, as overhealing will generate enmity the same as HP healed (overhealing is when you heal more than the target had lost, ie. The target suffered 100 damage and is brought down to 90% hp, you heal for 500; 100 of that actually heals the target bringing them back up to 100%, the other 400 is overhealing). In this game, it isn't difficult to generate more enmity than the tank as a healer. From a quick browse of the tank forums, its believe that damage and healing all generate lets say 1 enmity. So an attack dealing 100 damage generates 100 enmity on that target. Your heals work the same way, but your enmity is split evenly among all targets you are engaged with. Lets say your group is fighting three monsters and you heal someone for 100 (no overhealing); you will generate 33.3 (repeating, of course) enmity on each of those three targets. Now lets say your group is engaged to one target and the pull just started; the tank has only been able to generate 200 enmity on the target with their opening attack and BAM, you throw out a Medica... Assuming you're in a group of 4 people, and Medica is healing each target for around 200 (most of which will probably be overhealing), you now have (200 x 4 =) 800 enmity on that one mob, instantly pulling aggro. Addition: beneficial spells that don't restore HP (such as Protect and Esuna, excluding Stoneskin) will generate an enmity of 1 if casted on an engaged player. see this post for more information. Also, healing in this game scales more quickly than damage done, so when your tanks and damage dealers are doing maybe 200 damage per a second, you are capable of healing for 400 HP per a second. Be mindful of how much you are healing, and how quickly. Overhealing is never a good thing- its also wasteful, you could have spent less mana on a smaller heal and still gotten them to 100% HP. Despite all of this, its more important to keep everyone in your group alive then it is to manage your enmity, so don't be afraid to bust out the big heals if you need to. Its all about balance, doing enough healing to keep everyone alive and doing little enough to keep the monsters off of you. SIDE NOTE: Regardless of whether or not YOU are engaged with a target, if you have Regen/Medica II casted on someone, and THAT someone is engaged with a monster, you will generate enmity on that monster. So its usually a bad idea to have Regen on a target before the pull begins.

TODO

A lot...
Information on stats and how they effect your healing/MP/HP.
A guide on pre-healing and proper use of Shroud of Saints (or at least a slightly more proper use)
Boss-by-boss strategies focused on the healing aspect
Class quest how-to (for the people struggling on the solo-instances)

Any questions, comments, concerns, or critique (good or bad) is welcome. Good luck and have fun in Eorzia.

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Although it's mentioned here, I feel it should be thrown out there: do not regen the tank before pulls that could incur aggro. When regen ticks, the mobs will go right for you & the tank will have to do more work to grab the mobs if it's a big pull. :)

In regards to the aggro-go-to-the-tank thing that everyone should know: It's also a good idea to macro fluid aura to target the closets battletarget (/bt) and bump it back rooted to the tank (make sure you are in decent distance and cast into the tanks direction). I find that faster and easier than running around :)

*come and look* as a DPS, i LOVE all of you band-aids *-*° <3 <3 <3 Hearts and Muffins for you! *go away*

I'm so glad I read this. For some reason I thought Fluid Aura and Benediction had MP costs.

These are some of the things that I try to do that I thought might assist others (depends on party makeup).

For some crowd control, if I find that if players are doing AoE attacks and crowd control is broken, to use Fluid Aura on a relatively healthy add (or caster), then Repose it. For 30 seconds, I'm hoping to save the tank from an extra 90-100% damage. A plus if marked.

I was going to keep up a Holy tactic, but I'll try out some theories first. Hidden boxing it for now.

Holy. When you see three or more arrows coming at you from afar and you're full on HP and Stoneskin is up, but don't want to just wait for the beating, then get ready-run-on-sentence. Move to the tank or off-tank if applicable and time your Holy to hit the enemies as they come in. This will stun them after the initial flurry of blows you take and give you five seconds to get caught up. Your tank meanwhile, will have 5 seconds to secure enmity.

A single Flash or Overpower in Shield Oath or Defiance is sufficient enmity-wise to allow for Holy, Regen, and Cure I.

Nice guide, i'll look forward to reading the rest! :)

Can you tell me, when faced with a choice between spell speed and piety on gear, which would you go for? I'm levelling gold so I can craft all my accessories but i noticed two sets for whm: one with mnd +2, spell speed +3 and the other set with mnd +2, piety +1. I have no idea how much spell speed affects us and if it's even worth stacking or not over mp.

I personally would lean towards spell speed. Right now, its hard to get enough spell speed to get very good returns (10-15 spell speed being less than 0.01sec increase), but Piety seems to be poor as well. From what little I've tested, each piety seems to give around 8 MP @50. From personal experience, more people have died to my spell not landing in time compared to people dieing from me being out of MP.

Did not know about the overhealing generating enmity. Thanks for that. I just usually keep track at how much damage someone is taking and try to time cure just right, with the cast time in mind to restore them to as close at 100% as I can.

I'll be checking up on this thread for future help. Thank you!

This really cleared up a lot of my confusion! Kudos for taking the time to do this for your fellow band aids! Cheers

Can someone confirm that overhealing produces aggro?

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Originally Posted by RetroGackto

Can someone confirm that overhealing produces aggro?

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My apologies, my information for that section was based on very simple obersevations and word of mouth. After doing some double checking on my own, I noticed that it doesn't work like I had said in all situations. Investigating, will update when I know more.

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Tested the following scenarios:

• Grouped, party member has agro from monster but no enmity (monster attacks because party member was in range): Casting ANY sort of beneficial spell on that party member put me on the enmity table and pulled agro. Can't tell if overhealing generated 1:1 enmity as the party member had no enmity with which to compare.
• Grouped, party member had enmity (dealing about 50% of the monster's HP in damage): Using any sort of beneficial spell on the target put me on that monster's enmity table and put me in combat. They brought themselves up to 100% and spammed Stoneskin on themselves to maintain 100% HP, meanwhile I started spamming Cure II, after 3 casts I pulled agro (which is about right for a 1:1 healing/enmity ratio). In the same situation, if I casted anything on myself while not engaged with the target, it had no effect on enmity. However, if I were to get enmity on that target by any means, and then spam Cure on MYSELF, it would still pull agro after a few casts.
• Ungrouped, player had no enmity: Same results as grouped.
• Ungrouped, player did have enmity: Same results as grouped.

The beneficial spells I tested were Cure I/II/III, Regen (each indidual tick of Regen acted as if a Cure spell was cast), Esuna and Protect (despite being casted with myself as a target while out of combat, once the spell places itself on a target in combat, enmity will be generated). Stoneskin had an odd effect. It generated enmity greater than 1, but not equal to the amount it can absorb. The act of absorbing damage didn't generate any enmity (if you had placed Stoneskin beforehand, no enmity will be generated if damage is taken and absorbed), but casting did. Casting Stoneskin on a target with no enmity pulled agro just as one would expect, but using nothing but Stoneskin I was able to pull agro off a player that had already generated some enmity on their target. The enmity generated didn't appear to match the damage it can absorb, but it may be some arbitrary amount.

TLDR;
I can confirm that overhealing DOES generate enmity at a 1:1 ratio in the situations above. Casting a spell that doesn't heal, but has a beneficial effect will generate an approximate enmity of 1 (with the exception of Stoneskin, which generates a seemingly arbitrary amount greater than 1). If you are grouped up, but not engaged with a monster, casting any beneficial spell on yourself or other unengaged party members will not generate any enmity on the targets of an engaged party member. I also discovered that while a target is slept, all enmity generated beforehand is kept and no new enmity is generated until the sleep is broken, at which point enmity generation resumes as normal (so generating 50 enmity on a target and sleeping it, then generating 100 enmity via heals on party members, the target will awaken with just that 50 enmity.) Unsure how sleep interacts with DoTs and Flash.

thanks for the Guide it realy helps a lot.

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Stoneskin had an odd effect. It generated enmity greater than 1, but not equal to the amount it can absorb. The act of absorbing damage didn't generate any enmity (if you had placed Stoneskin beforehand, no enmity will be generated if damage is taken and absorbed), but casting did. Casting Stoneskin on a target with no enmity pulled agro just as one would expect, but using nothing but Stoneskin I was ale to pull agro off a player that had already generated some enmity on their target. The enmity generated didn't appear to match the damage it can absorb, but it may be some arbitrary amount.

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Just a thought, but is it possible stone skin generates enmity equal to just stoneskin and not stoneskin with the graniteskin trait? Then the enmity generated would be 5/9ths of the "stoneskin hp" generated, which would be relatively significant if you needed to keep bring the tank's hp up, but already had more than a comfortable amount of enmity. So in an instance of the tank has fresh a regen and is at 30-40%hp and you have nearly as much enmity as the tank, you could cast stoneskin to allow regen to keep healing him and generate significantly less enmity. Kind of a bad situation, but sometimes things happen.

Of course, this is just a guess.

Good guide by the way. (as of writing esuna and medica have the aero I picture.)

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Good thought, I'll need to check that. If I can find someone on my server that would be willing to spend 15-20min to test it with me this weekend, that would be awesome. :D

Also, thanks for noticing the pictures, fixed em.

Healing in fates is the best way to get full credit as a healer. Get in a party, spam medica and look for low players to cure, and bam. Full credit at end of fates without tagging any mobs or using a single attack spell.

1st off thanks for the guide and info.
I've been really curious about refresh from Shroud of Saints and Regen tic, I did a little experiment b/c I was curious if we whm can increase refresh amount

W/GEAR
[MANA]---[MND]-----[TIC]----[TOTAL]
3293-------298--------193-------965

W/O GEAR
[MANA]---[MND]-----[TIC]----[TOTAL]
3173-------233--------193-------965

My lvl is 48, and I haven't used a single one of my attribute points b/c I heard rumors certain stats affect refresh tick.....
Maybe I did something wrong or someone wants to double check my findings, just wanted to post this if anyone else was curious.

Lets get a Pin on this thread, This is Great Information!!!!

What about stats and those useful cross-skills?

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Originally Posted by Azuvidexus

What about stats and those useful cross-skills?

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From what I've seen so far, our top three stats are Mind > Spell Speed > Piety. With Determination and Critical Chance being good, but not something we strive for.

Mind increases all our healing done, a bit more then what I've noticed with Determination. Spell Speed gives us faster casts which gives us more Free Cures and Over Cures which I find pretty big for the WHM. Piety I'm on the rocks about, it gives us more MP and Passive MP Regen so any points in it aren't wasted and help us heal for longer, but at the same time is it really worth it, research needs to be done I think. Then Critical I don't find reliable enough for a Healer, and Determination is just like Mind but without as much give as it also helps with damage.

As for Cross Class Skills, the BIG one I find is from Lv.26 Thaum. It's Swiftcast. Every 60 seconds you get a spell cast instantly. That's an Instant Rez, an Instant Cure 3, Medica 2. There's SO many things we can use it for, it's very key. Eye for an Eye from Arcanist isn't a bad choice to throw on tanks, Virus is also good if you don't have Improved Virus in your group. Other then that, I don't think of anything else we really need.

Is there ever a reason to go CNJ over WHM? I.E. ever a situation where it is better?

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Is there ever a reason to go CNJ over WHM? I.E. ever a situation where it is better?

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Possibly while solo grinding (not fates) just because you have access to more spells (even if you'll do slightly less damage). Otherwise in parties giving up regen is pretty painful....Or if you fate Grind Holy is ezmode Gold.

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Is there ever a reason to go CNJ over WHM? I.E. ever a situation where it is better?

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I would say no. The other abilities you'd have access to wouldn't outweigh what you get from being a WHM. As far as defense, you'd get Regen and Benediction which would be far better than any other crossclass abilities I can think of. As far as offense, as was stated by Exphryl, you have Holy; one of the best offensive AoE abilities in the game.

Thanks for the nice guide. Learned a lot. Especially the overheal part was new to me. Played a healer in guild wars 1, but overheal wasnt an issue there.

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As for Cross Class Skills, the BIG one I find is from Lv.26 Thaum. It's Swiftcast. Every 60 seconds you get a spell cast instantly. That's an Instant Rez, an Instant Cure 3, Medica 2. There's SO many things we can use it for, it's very key. Eye for an Eye from Arcanist isn't a bad choice to throw on tanks, Virus is also good if you don't have Improved Virus in your group. Other then that, I don't think of anything else we really need.

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Surecast, also from THM, an uninteruptable cast is pretty good also.

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Surecast, also from THM, an uninteruptable cast is pretty good also.

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Yeah, it's good but I find Eye for an Eye, and Swifcast are the only must haves. Virus and Surecast are more luxuries then requirements. At my level I still haven't used Surecast, nothing seems to really interuppt me. Would it allow me to cast through a Stun, or a Silence?

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Originally Posted by Cariborne

Yeah, it's good but I find Eye for an Eye, and Swifcast are the only must haves. Virus and Surecast are more luxuries then requirements. At my level I still haven't used Surecast, nothing seems to really interuppt me. Would it allow me to cast through a Stun, or a Silence?

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I believe that it would, but I'm not positive. There aren't many situations where you'd really need it. But one that I can think of is during Garuda fight, toward the end you could cast surecast then pre-cast medica to get party back up to full health quicker after the big aoe hit that interrupts casts. As we see more high level content, I'm sure there will be more situations to use it. You could use swiftcast in teh same scanario, but I prefer to always save swiftcast to be used as an instant Brez with a 1-min CD.

Either way if you go deep enough into THM to get swiftcast, then you already have surecast, might as well use it :)

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Originally Posted by dragonflyseksparade

I believe that it would, but I'm not positive. There aren't many situations where you'd really need it. But one that I can think of is during Garuda fight, toward the end you could cast surecast then pre-cast medica to get party back up to full health quicker after the big aoe hit that interrupts casts. As we see more high level content, I'm sure there will be more situations to use it. You could use swiftcast in teh same scanario, but I prefer to always save swiftcast to be used as an instant Brez with a 1-min CD.

Either way if you go deep enough into THM to get swiftcast, then you already have surecast, might as well use it :)

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Yeah, that makes sense. The one thing I've noticed about Raise though is it's cost, so really I'd rather always have a Summoner do it in a Raid environment and only have to use it when there's no other reason.

Awesome guide

Really nice guide thank you a lot,
Perhaps you could upgrade this to a conjurer/white mage thread, because i think you assume anyone reading this know what enmity is and then almost at the end of the guide you explain what enmity is in detail, i think it should be at the start in a glosary or something like that, there you can explain things like overhealing, pre-casting, enmity, Aoe and pull (maybe?), etc... so anyone starting in mmo/healers understand the terminology used in this thread :)

On a side note sure cast its really useful at lower levels when used with raise because if tank dies the aggro mob will probably come for you and interrupt you and swiftcast will probably be obtained after reaching lvl 50 as whm