Consolidated White Mage 4.0 Feedback Thread

[Seraphyna]

Greetings!

First off, thank you all for the continued feedback regarding the upcoming changes to white mage in Patch 4.0. We've been reading through it all and sharing it with the team.

As some have already pointed out, Yoshida recently made a comment about how casting Cure II will now grant a lily 100% of the time. The information and data revealed during the recent media tour was from a build made in late April, and various actions have been modified since then. While we continue to collect and relay your valuable feedback to the dev. team, we ask you to keep that in mind and hang tight a bit longer, until the finalized information is revealed in the patch notes.

Am I supposed to be excited about the bolded?

I can't tell you how infrequently I cast Cure II. It's almost nil. Regen, Medica/II, Cure (when needed), all yes. Cure II, hardly.

You know who I see spamming Cure II? New Whm's and those whose panic. That's who.

That's what you see in ARR & HW. The whole healing game is changing come Stormblood.

Looking at all the evidence, it appears Regen and Medica II alone will be insufficient to keep up with the incoming damage. Meanwhile, the Stone Skin is being removed. Hence, we'll have to be casting our Cure I and IIs and using Lilies, Confession, and whatever else is in our toolkit come release to keep the other characters alive.

Think about it.

Oh you mean overhealing, hate generating, mp draining healing? Sounds quite lovely.

Was only a disaster to the whm rep because players made it so. The freak out was real and most of it not constructive at all in the beginning. Some folks didn't get want they want as far as skills and effectively self sabotaged the class. However, that rep may not be as badly damaged either. From talking to people in game a lot of players seem to think the reaction was overblown. So it might salvaged yet.

Didn't get the skills they wanted and sabotaged the class eh? Let me lay it out for you. THIS is what Whm got:

Stone/Stone II/Stone III - Will now upgrade to stronger form
Aero/Aero II - Will now upgrade to stronger form
Aero III
Cleric Stance - Removed and changed to cross class skill
Protect - Removed and changed to cross class skill
Medica
Raise
Fluid Aura - Damage Removed
Esuna - Removed and changed to cross class skill
Repose
Cure
Cure II
Cure III
Medica II
Stoneskin - Removed (and previously nerfed)
Stoneskin II - Removed
Shroud of Saints - Removed and changed to cross class skill
Presence Of Mind
Regen
Divine Seal - Removed and changed to cross class skill
Holy - Damage reduced twice
Benediction
Asylum
Assize
Tetragrammaton

Please show me another job that had this amount of abilities removed from it, changes made, and nothing given back. I'll wait.