Consolidated White Mage 4.0 Feedback Thread

[Bourne_Endeavor]

I still don't see why ppl are against WHM being the PLD (easy safe option) of healing? If the safety net that a whm provides is marginal to the ast/sch combo... not just the top 1% will phase it out. Make AST/SCH composition more extremely dependent on party composition and Optimal execution. There should be some noticeable trade off for opting out of a whm. Still make all comps VIABLE. Just raise the difficulty level.

For those that are against Whm being a PURE healer, there is no other direction they can take WHM and not make them a copy of Ast (which AST SHOULD BE A SUB COPY OF WHM) or a direct copy of SCH.

Because a pure anything has no role to fill in this game. Why take a one dimensional White Mage into Savage when Astro and Scholar offer near equivalent healing and significantly superior utility? The devs don't want to make any one healer stronger than the other, thus White Mage isn't even a "pure healer," it's neutered Astro.

You simply cannot balance for the top 1%, for the people who play all day, raid 7 times a week and want to be competitive for world firsts and the likes.

WHM will stay the go to healer for people like me, people who just raid in a friendly and relaxed atmosphere, and don't compete to bring a boss down asap. Everything in here is getting blown out of proportion as always happens on MMO forums . People preach doom and gloom and look, the game will live on.

And arguing and circlejerking about this one 'issue' (which I hardly call an issue) is not doing something, as everyone views this from their personal viewpoint. Devs always have access to more data and statistics than you can ever dream of.

Bunch of whiney crybabies, WHM surely are.

Raiding is the only content where balance matters.

Nothing else hits even remotely hard enough for anyone to care what isn't "good" outside Savage and Extremes. Currently, Paladin has trash aoe yet it does fine in dungeons. People start to care in A12S, where Paladin's lack of magic mitigation makes it a huge hindrance compared to Dark Knight. So the devs should be focusing on what makes groups want certain jobs because their failure to do so often means said jobs will be omitted from Savage statics. White Mages saw an enormous decline from their usage in Gordias and Midas because Astro is simply better than them in every way.