What makes WHM special? Nothing anymore.

[RichardButte]

(a big, fat pile of wrongness)

Just another "player" who hasn't even leveled more than one healing class to 60 and is arguing theorycraft instead of facts.

Move along, folks. Nothing to see here...

[winsock]

Just another "player" who hasn't even leveled more than one healing class to 60 and is arguing theorycraft instead of facts.

Move along, folks. Nothing to see here...

Said Richard, the lvl 35 CNJ on a post about WHM vs AST.

[Crater]

PoM is not SPELL SPEED anymore!!! It's attack speed only.

"Attack speed" is a generalized term for any haste buff. It affects healing spells just as much as it affects offensive spells.

The minutiae of how "attack speed" differs from "skill speed" and "spell speed" are a tiny bit complicated and largely irrelevant to WHM, but the short of it is that Presence of Mind is effectively a 25% boost to (non-HoT, on-GCD) healing throughput.

[Muahbec]

Said Richard, the lvl 35 CNJ on a post about WHM vs AST.

He never said "Just another player who hasn't even leveled WHM to 60"
He said "More than one healing class to 60"
Richard has SCH and AST at 60.

[RichardButte]

Said Richard, the lvl 35 CNJ on a post about WHM vs AST.

http://ffxiv.consolegameswiki.com/wiki/White_Mage

It's all there, bro.

Doesn't take rocket science to add up all of WHM's options and realize that they have FAR more tools than AST does (including access to E4E and Virus, which AST lacks).

SCH still beats the pants off of AST in burst, MP regen, and DPS (hoooooly crap does it beat AST in DPS...).

I don't think I've seen a single complaint thread by someone who has actually leveled an AST + another healer to 60...

[Fevelle]

He never said "Just another player who hasn't even leveled WHM to 60"
He said "More than one healing class to 60"
Richard has SCH and AST at 60.

Well, I didn't know I had to level Scholar and Astrologian to talk about White Magic.
WHM is just a generic healer now, and the problem isn't really on the Astrologian buffs, but the job design itself. You can solo-heal A4S with a 3000 potency ocd no-mp cost raid-wide spell and I wouldn't care, but don't take my uniqueness and my skills from me because of other classes!

[Coltvoyance]

Said Richard, the lvl 35 CNJ on a post about WHM vs AST.

Hey, he has a lvl 60 White Mage... it's just spelled as "Astrologian" after all AST = WHM + Cards.

[Assirra]

Hey, he has a lvl 60 White Mage... it's just spelled as "Astrologian" after all AST = WHM + Cards.

See if you cannot have a decent discussion, why start a thread at all?

[Muahbec]

Well, I didn't know I had to level Scholar and Astrologian to talk about White Magic.
WHM is just a generic healer now, and the problem isn't really on the Astrologian buffs, but the job design itself. You can solo-heal A4S with a 3000 potency ocd no-mp cost raid-wide spell and I wouldn't care, but don't take my uniqueness and my skills from me because of other classes!

Well, you have no lv 60 job as far as i'm aware, so why are you even here?
Also the whole drama in your post is highly unnecessary.
Stop.

[Muahbec]

Hey, he has a lvl 60 White Mage... it's just spelled as "Astrologian" after all AST = WHM + Cards.

WOW, and just when i thought this could not get worse. WOW