Consolidated White Mage 4.0 Feedback Thread

[Fernosaur]

There is no cross-class Regen.

I think a lot of you are doom-saying a little bit too much before even getting to know more about the new core mechanics of WHM. I'd wait to hear more about the job's flower-based stuff before jumping to conclusions. The fact that Protect, Divine Seal, Esuna and Cleric are now in role skills means that either WHM can get new skills that come with utility or mitigation (or both), or that the other healers are losing skills too, since they want to avoid hotbar cluttering. Particularly in the case of Divine Seal, since it is a job action, this means WHM DEFINITELY is gonna get something to replace it.

Stone IV was an obvious addition since all healers need an updated potency nuke to keep up with DPS (which will replace Stone I/II/III in our hotbars, as well as Ruin and Broil, yay!) so I don't see why anyone would complain there...

I know their comments weren't exactly uplifting, but don't go so far as to bury WHM just yet, have a little faith in your main job .

Btw, the fairy tether makes me think Scholar's healing output through Eos is getting a rather heavy handed nerf, so there's that at least? lmao. The fact that they decided to showcase AST's cards with Arrow instead of Balance makes me suspect Balance might be reworked somehow... but we'll see.

[Yorumi]

I know their comments weren't exactly uplifting, but don't go so far as to bury WHM just yet, have a little faith in your main job .

The main reason is that we know what needs to happen to make whm useful. Basically either the endgame needs to change to require a hell of a lot more healing than it does now or whm needs some ability to boost raid dps. Since whm has no answer to balance/arrow or fey wind, and they're unwilling to make a raid require the healing power of a whm there's not a lot of hope to be had. Sure we'll wait for final confirmation but it's highly unlikely either of those things is happening. Plain and simple whm needs haste as an answer to cards and fey wind.

[Yuyuka3]

There is no cross-class Regen.

I sure do hope so.

I know their comments weren't exactly uplifting, but don't go so far as to bury WHM just yet, have a little faith in your main job .

I'm sorry to tell you that my faith in Square's ability to balance healers, especially WHM, properly died quite some time ago. It was a tragic, painful death an the loss will be sorely felt.

[Fernosaur]

I sure do hope so.

I'm sorry to tell you that my faith in Square's ability to balance healers, especially WHM, properly died quite some time ago. It was a tragic, painful death an the loss will be sorely felt.

I know how you feel. I used to main Paladin throughout late ARR and into early HW and believe me, nothing felt quite as abandoned and left in the dust as PLD. It still feels like it, but even through the lackluster job they've done to balance PLD has me with some surviving hope that it might be a little bit more in-line with the other tanks come SB. Of course, it helps that we got much more info on tank changes than we did for healers, but we'll see.

I'm just saying that it's still waaay too early to count WHM out. They're getting spell-speed buffs, and I don't think the WHM showcase was just to give another demonstration of Rescue. My theory is that they can share this spell/skill-speed buff somehow.

It makes you wonder why they are not showing us what is new about White Mage when the other jobs did go into a bit of detail about how they changed.

Tbh I was holding out through the entire liveletter for more SCH info and we got even less than we got for WHM, so I wouldn't be so sure that it's because WHM is gonna die forever. The data we got on AST was also pretty vague and didn't go into detail at all.