3.0 Adjustments to Existing Actions for WHM & SCH

[Roxas_Andrade]

Someone has info/opinion on that new SCH attack spell?

[Tranquil]

Someone has info/opinion on that new SCH attack spell?

I heard it was gonna be a 170-potency single target spell with a 5x relative MP cost of Ruin II, or something like that. Same cast time too.

Whether that is fully accurate or not, I dunno. We'll see soon.

[MagnificentOxen]

So Graniteskin was deleted. Now we get Quick stoneskin. Gives you a whole whopping -0.5 seconds from the base cast time of stoneskin.
Proshell was replaced with "enhanced" medica. Grants a 20% chance that Medica will cost half MP.

[SuzakuCMX]

SCH looks really fun for heal intensive fights now....

Eos Healing Buff + Whispering Dawn + Convalesence: 3x Lustrate
Emergency Tactics + Dissipation + Adloquium: 3x Lustrate again

SO MUCH HEALING. Whether it'll be worth losing your fairy heals for the time period, debatable for now. But will it be more fun? Hell yes.

That's like....4200 potency healing total before all the buffs.....

[Blueyes]

So with 3.0 being available for download the files associated with it have also been made available. As a heads up, it seems it's been determined that White Mage doesn't need Graniteskin anymore.

[AdamFyi]

Dunno if I'm allowed to post this, but here you guys go. I only have the WHM one at the moment.

[Snip]

I forgot holy, heh.

[Snip]

Edit:

Managed to get the SCH ones. I can't find anything about the faeries though.

[Snip]

Credits for the screenshots goes to [Snip].

Edit-edit:

Removed pictures as per request of Yoshi-P over on the stream. :O

[KisaiTenshi]

That account's GONE. What'd it say?

She removed it because it was being taken out of context.

[Tranquil]

Feels to me like WHM got shafted pretty much. No more 18% Stoneskin, on top of their Protect going global with the mdef, PoM nerfed, Tetragrammaton is not %-based (not surprising with the recent Lustrate I guess), Assize will only either be a good heal/bad DPS spell or the opposite... Well, Asylum looks good and they will have their MP issues fixed with some of this stuff (with Assize mainly), and their damage potential can still be okay, provided they don't miss. But geez.

[Verdan]

I totally disagree. White mages still have the most powerful healing spells, and the most powerful damaging spells out of the healers. They've gained an additional way to get MP back, and gained an additional efficiency tool with the medica cost chance. Presence of mind increases spell speed by 25%, which on a class with 3 stacking hots and 3 stacking dots is really crazy. That's not a nerf, that's a buff! They've also retained the only percentage based healing spell, meaning they have the only real emergency heal left. While stoneskin's reduction hurts, the speed change is to allow it to be easier cast in combat as the white mage's shield. I honestly thing the white mage is in the exact same place it was before the expansion: The most powerful healer, but lacking in short and unique buffs for other classes.

[DreamWeaver]

Spell Speed must be extremely potent to DoT/HoT for Presence of Mind to receive such a huge nerf (it's 10% less than the original Selene buff FFS =___=).

It is a fact StoneSkin has been nerfed (0.5 sec faster is not a good trade off for 8% extra HP), but in the end....there's no alternative V_V, when tank buster comes, you'll still need to cast that stoneskin, and better you than your co healer (most likely not a WHM) or a Paladin. So although it's a nerf... it does not change the play style in anyway. But I honestly feel the cast time should be reduced to 2 seconds rather than 2.5s, to bring it inline with other shield spells like adlo and the AST ones.

Other than that, between Assize's free Medica + 10% MP regen, Asylum's 800 Potency AoE Heal, Tetragamatron's replacing Cure II during Tank Busters, it seems WHM's MP should be alot more lenient now.

With Stone III (40 potency higher), Aero II (40 potency higher), and Aero III (370 Potency) as BnB dps skills (Aero is lowest potency I think at 200, good to be used during movement/fluid aura now, rather than part of rotation), and the above mentioned better MP consumption, think WHMs can "bruteforce" their way in DPSing now . (Even if I miss, so be it, my attacks pack a punch, and I have MP to spare).

P/S: Everything above is purely speculation by yours truly.

PPS: For any Scholar "Mains" that complain the "nerf" to Lustrate is the end of Stance "Dancing", newsflash!! Camping your ass in Cleric Stance, DPSing constantly, Lustrate when needed is NOT Stance Dancing.
Be more aware and anticipate when you'll need to turn off CS in order to use Lustrate, it's at most a 0.5 second delay.
Know this, WHMs that have been stance dancing, we need to turn off Cleric Stance, and cast our slow ass heal to heal a target up, a total of approximately 2.5 second delay, compared to your now 0.5 sec delay.

If you feel this "nerf" means "RIP Scholar DPS", I guess WHM dps have been RIPing since the beginning of time huh?