WHM Help and Question

[Granyala]

* Contrary to what that one person told you, don't put Cleric Stance on. You are a healer, not a DPS. By all means, if everyone's relatively topped up and there are no imminent emergencies, throw it on for a moment and dish out some damage. But that is an extra bonus on top of your regular role, only if the run is a cakewalk.

Well, if you enter CS, you have 3-5 seconds until you can exit again.


Other than that you can ALWAYS give the command to exit, even while casting. (It'll immediately drop off after the cast is through)

You can do it, but it's rather irrelevant. Why? See below:

Imho the advice to SPAM holy is suboptimal at best.
If your tank goes to the limit of what you both can do (not talking about herp-a-derping 2 thrashgroups, there you can spam to your hearts content), you will NOT have the time to spam DPS spells. Oo

Usually I use it once in conjunction with instant cast, for the 4s stun duration immediately after all the mobs are in position. Gives me time to heal the tank back up and put the HoT on.
After that, I have to spam the big heal (Vitra?) in conjunction with the 30% heal boost / 50% haste boost or she will die.

Imho using Holy more than 3 times is nonsensical, because of the stun DR and eventual immunity of the mobs. Even the 3rd stun is already < 1s.

* Are your bonus attributes from leveling put into Mind? Because that's where they belong.

Disagree. On heavy pulls my WHM is mana limited, not throughput limited. Piety is more useful.

As far as stoneskin is concerned: Surely you can and should put it up before the pull, but imho it absorbs so little that it's hardly worth the cast time midfight. It doesn't even stay on the tank longer than 2 seconds.
I rather use it for the squishies to mitigate encounter based damage spikes.

[Odd]

Usually I use it once in conjunction with instant cast, for the 4s stun duration immediately after all the mobs are in position. Gives me time to heal the tank back up and put the HoT on.

That's crazy talk. If you swiftcast Holy, the mobs will remained stunned until a split second before the next one. You might as well do two for sure. But as I said at the start of this thread, I use it a minimum of 4 times, 6-10 on huge packs when SoS and benediction are ready. When using Holy, WHM can be the top DPS against trash mobs, by a HUGE margin if there's no BLM in the group, and even still against the vast majority of BLM's.

I play on ps4, so good luck accusing me of parsing, but I play with someone who does parse, and I regularly do 1000+ dps on trash (big pulls). Nobody dies except the mobs, which die a hell of a lot faster than if I stood there waiting for the tank to take damage.