Consolidated White Mage 4.0 Feedback Thread

[Feidam]

Do we have any speculation on what that shiny buff was that she threw on the black mage? Or what that watery looking effect was? Seemed to be another buff, but looked like it was a self buff.

We do not. Which is why this whole premise of nerfing and or buffing the whm at this point is premature. No one has seen the changes or played with the changes. They heard a buzz word/phrase and and viola.

[Xylas]

We do not. Which is why this whole premise of nerfing and or buffing the whm at this point is premature. No one has seen the changes or played with the changes. They heard a buzz word/phrase and and viola.

I've heard some speculation that it may be barriers(like sch and noct AST). Don't get me wrong I'm not writing off the class until we see the final build.

I don't know about the blue one (maybe a self buff to enhance spell power of some kind), but the white/rainbow one seems like it'll be a haste or something that boosts damage IMO. Why else put it on a black mage? Unless he was only there to showcase the pull and leylines teleport.

[Yorumi]

I don't know about the blue one (maybe a self buff to enhance spell power of some kind), but the white/rainbow one seems like it'll be a haste or something that boosts damage IMO. Why else put it on a black mage? Unless he was only there to showcase the pull and leylines teleport.

I don't know that we can read too much into the classes of the targets. Remember they wern't doing anything close to proper rotations so it's unknown just how much we were supposed to get from all that. That said I doubt it's haste. I would just expect a more traditional clock effect for haste. All the effects that look like they could be buffs though produce a notable bubble on the target which is generally more associated with barriers. We'll see when it comes out but what stands out to me about it is the bubble effects, ie barriers, nothing is really screaming damage buff to me.

[Feidam]

I don't know that we can read too much into the classes of the targets. Remember they wern't doing anything close to proper rotations so it's unknown just how much we were supposed to get from all that. That said I doubt it's haste. I would just expect a more traditional clock effect for haste. All the effects that look like they could be buffs though produce a notable bubble on the target which is generally more associated with barriers. We'll see when it comes out but what stands out to me about it is the bubble effects, ie barriers, nothing is really screaming damage buff to me.

In the benchmench there was a buff like skill shown that looked like it proc'd when the pally was attacked. Had a holy-ish efftect. i could be whm have a damage shield that reflects lashes out and damages the attacker I suppose. Granted that is pure conjecture.

[Yorumi]

In the benchmench there was a buff like skill shown that looked like it proc'd when the pally was attacked. Had a holy-ish efftect. i could be whm have a damage shield that reflects lashes out and damages the attacker I suppose. Granted that is pure conjecture.

The proc look was part of a pld ability. In fact I think the whole thing is the pld ability it's just the holy effect was more obscured from the angle in the live letter. If you slow down the video for pld you can see an opaque white cloud appear but you get a hint that behind it is a holy looking effect.