Consolidated White Mage 4.0 Feedback Thread

[Sebazy]

You...you're trolling right? You can't be serious.

No, perhaps you need to work on your reading comprehension a little?

AST has higher potency heals

Wrong - AST is 10 potency up on it's cure, 10 potency down (and a full tick short) on it's regen as far as bread and butter healing goes. The MP disparity is nothing new, the Assize buffs and Thin Air will heal to compensate for that. As far as the media build went, SCH is the one that needs to be crying foul here, not WHM

ludacrous shields on gcd

Agreed - Isn't this more of a problem for SCH though?

less randomness in their cards

Soso - This could go either way, sleeve draw looks nice, but the addition of a ability to remove cards has me worried that you won't be able to click them off anymore which has the potential to offset the extra cards that sleeve draw will bring into play. Too many factors to say until we've seen Omega and played with this first hand.

And for what so a whm's emergency aoe heal is affected by random procs on the target

Assize called, it wants you to know that it still loves you <3 - Plenary Indulgence clearly isn't intended to be an emergency aoe heal at all, the 30 second duration on confession stacks pretty much seals that right out of the gate. However, try really hard for me and ignore the aoe aspect of it for a moment.... Are you there yet? Good, now think about how powerful a free 400+ potency insta cast on a 15 second cooldown in any situation where a tank is taking enough sustained damage. Now double it if you've got 2 tanks taking hits. It isn't an aoe panic button by any stretch, it is however an interesting mishmash of a tank specific lustrate and synastry. In trivial content and dungeons it'll be nigh useless, for progression raiding where you're actually having to spam cure the tank(s) I suspect it's going to scale up impressively.

Whm is SCREWED in 4.0.

Nope - The only thing that I see as screwed with these healer changes is SCHs AoE DPS gameplay, 2 dots, and then 2 oGCDs (one with a 1 minute CD) whilst single target nuking? Really SE? AST is a utility powerhouse pre 50, yet it's dull and feels weak because if it's inability to aoe properly pre gravity. Seems kind of silly to condemn SCHs to a similar feel in dungeons at the end game =(