Consolidated White Mage 4.0 Feedback Thread

[Skyrior]

All of the following is written from a raiding perspective. I don't care how WHMs are in dungeons.

1. ASTs are getting a free 900 potency AoE heal, better than Assize. ASTs are also getting a new 500 potency cure and 15% boost to healing across the board in diurnal stance.

2. Diurnal AST is now equal to, if not better than, WHMs in terms of raw healing.

3. ASTs still have unnerfed cards and a new ability that gives more cards per 120s.

4. WHM's lily mechanic is procced by Cure 1, and Cure 2, two healing spells where you actually ACTIVELY want to use as little as possible. The majority of your heals comes from Regen, Tetragrammaton, and Medica II. Yet the lily mechanic is tied with heals you don't want to use.

5. WHM's lily mechanic is RNG-heavy. So on top of not wanting to cast Cure1/Cure2 too much in the first place, you might not even get lilies since the chance is 20%.

6. WHM's Lv70 AoE heal ability is procced based on another layer of RNG.

Now,

- WHM's heals are based on RNG (AST's **utility** is RNG but not their heals)

- WHM's system actually encourages you to overheal, waste GCDs that could've been used to deal damage, and play unoptimally to make full use of it

- WHM's heals are actually worse than Diurnal ASTs potency-wise

Square Enix, what were you thinking?

BTW, I've looked at other jobs on MTQcapture and was really impressed and excited about the changes. Really love the PLD abilities. So this clearly isn't an issue with them being unable to balance jobs. It seems that their vision for WHM is completely wrong from the very foundation which is why no amount of balance is going to fix it unless they got rid of that vision.