Stat Priority as a WHM.

[DarkLordCthulhu]

my WHM is max piety build. I logged out on my SMN cant give the exact stat calculations, but my max piety gives me around 5200-5300 MANA and i sit around ~274 ish DET. With my Det gear on i reach somewhere around ~338 DET. After spamming Cure I on myself with both different builds i only noticed a ~50 HP difference in the potency on my cures. The only thing is that instead of 5k plus mana I was sitting around 4500-4600.

I'd rather have the extra MANA than 50+ more hp on heals.
I think the max piety build is better. Especially for progression since ppl will be dying and taking avoidable damage when learning new mechanics.

Dont quote me on this following sentence, but a while back i was discussing healers with one of the officers of my old FC. He mains WHM. He really loves parsing his HPS and overhealing and all that advance healer stuff. (Lets call it FFXIV Sabermetrics lol). He told me that after doing the math (2.3 build) a max piety WHM would be able to cast 200 more cure 1's over the course of the fight than a max det. The reason being they have more natural mp regen per tick because of the larger mana pull.

the more cure 1s u can cast, the more free cure procs u get, further helping with mana conservation. So whille the lower DET means i have to cast more spells through out the fight, it also means i will be asking for ballad less often