Quote Originally Posted by Thunderz View Post
Experience so far.

if you don't have a BRD in your party... you will run into some serious MP problems if you have to consistently heal (hvy dmg situation)

WHM has long Casting time on its healing spells (I'm looking at you Cure II) which isn't that great when your trying to heal a party who isn't sitting next to each other

Medica is terrible in situations that getting close to the party is not a good idea (Ifrits hard mode), Cure III is very expensive and its AoE range isn't that great

In situations where you have to consistently move and cure WHM is just in serious trouble

Oh and when you cure people it automatically forces you to face the person ..... (Amdapor Keep 2nd boss just throwing it out there he will knock you off the platform if your not not in the proper angles etc)

In conclusion, I'm def not happy with WHM and will probably end up with a SCH as main heal.

My 2cents


That is exactly what I'm afraid of. Scholar pets seem adequate to do the bulk of long-duration, low-intensity healing, and they do it while the Scholar is moving, they do it while the Scholar is is stunned/silenced and they do it while the Scholar is OOM or even while the Scholar is DPSing.

With the White Mage, every single heal eats into the MP pool, the HoT effects appear to be not strong enough to keep a party topped off if while WM is stunned/silenced, there are no instants to keep on healing while the WM is moving, the MP regen skill is on a very long cooldown.

Yes, the burst-healing numbers for the WM are higher, but the Scholar can most likely at least partially avoid the need to burst-heal by throwing a few absorb shields around.