Consolidated White Mage 4.0 Feedback Thread

[javid]

This is the argument you've been making this whole time, and it's actually accurate. Spamming expensive, slow, single target heals is, in fact, the most potent healing, but it is not the most efficient, or the most common. WHM's cast regens, and pop instas. In between, we single target heal and DPS. This is the way we play. It simply is.

that's a nice summary. However potent healing or efficient is matter of semantics. if you asked the question which of the skills used is most efficiently uses their max potency? That right there would be a measure of EFFICIENCY.


Trolls coming out of the woodworks to argue points that don't make sense.....

So guys are telling me Effective Potency/Max Potency isn't a measure of efficiency???? I'm not allowed to say efficiency??????? If this isn't a measure of efficiency?? what is it??????

[Cynfael]

that's a nice summary. However potent healing or efficient is matter of semantics. if you asked the question which of the skills used is most efficiently uses their max potency? That right there would be a measure of EFFICIENCY.

Potency and efficiency are far from mutually inclusive. Hence why Cure spells are inherently less efficient in terms of GCDs and MP consumption vs. output despite their far greater potency per cast vs. Regen, for example.

If we're talking about overhealing, that is largely within the player's control. Naturally Medica II often overheals since it applies a regen effect to the entire party.

[Yhximott]

that's a nice summary. However potent healing or efficient is matter of semantics. if you asked the question which of the skills used is most efficiently uses their max potency? That right there would be a measure of EFFICIENCY.

Efficiency is a measure maximizing all your resources over a given, measurable period. In the context of only having Cure or only having Medica, for example, you'd be correct, but we have both, and many more skills, in fact. Cure I/II accounts for 2/23 of our available tools. You measured how much healing you could do if you spammed Cure over and over and over and over and over, offering literally nothing else to the party, which makes it seem like Cure is efficient compared to putting a Regen or a Medica II on someone and then standing around for that same 30 seconds. That's definitely not efficient.