Pre-4.0 Concern

[Reiryuu]

I mentioned it before in another thread, and I'll say it again now. The white mage fury is not something that's just happening. It's something that many WHM players have been bottling up and dev decisions and messages have triggered an explosion. Essentially, it's a time bomb and SE made it explode instead of diffusing it. So... why did it explode and not diffuse?

SE promised tanks and healers both that the reason we weren't getting any new jobs to play in Stormblood was because they were spending the time and focusing on balancing the jobs. WHMs have been kinda peeved since 3.0 that a lot of our utility has just been whored out to the other 2 healers and we really haven't had much in return. 3.0 also saw a second nerf to Holy something that the scholars are now feeling with the nerf of Bane. Granted, the nerf to Bane is a more severe since they're also losing the stacking Bio to it and damage from Miasma, IIRC.

Anyway, back on subject. Looking at the jobs it's pretty clear that WHM is not balanced with the other healers. And one of our main peeves-- giving abilities to other jobs, happened yet again. We have access to the fewest amount of skills/effects/etc, the buffs and abilities to AST have made it much stronger at healing, we got nothing of the utility we wanted and that both other healers have. Instead, SE is pushing this "vision" of a "pure healer" onto the job which is something the community not only doesn't want, but the game itself doesn't really support a demand for. Furthermore, we were given a new mechanic that rewards us for not using most of the spells that we generally use and even punishes us for using some of those skills as well. With the loss of Stoneskin, white mage no longer has an in-job form of mitigation or shielding until level 66. This will make young white mages leveling experience more difficult 1-60.