Consolidated White Mage 4.0 Feedback Thread

[Reiryuu]

As many have already said, I will just repeat for emphasis:

* Why bring a WHM when you can have The Balance and Chain Strategem and not loose any healing power?

* Why, when SMNs have been told over and over again that they can't have more egis for this very reason, is there such a clear discrepancy in the number of skills and abilities a WHM has over SCH and AST? This number shrinks even smaller when skills are consolidated.

* Why did we lose the only native mitigation spell we were going to have in 4.0 (stoneskin) only to have it replaced at 66 with a far inferior skill leaving us with nothing 1-66? We knew we would be losing protect to cross-role, but why did we have to lose stoneskin?

* Why has SE continued to distribute our spells (now removing) without giving us anything to replace them?

* Why is our new job mechanic revolved around something an AST can do with a single card, but better?! Theirs works for all abilities used within 30 seconds, ours works for ONE.

* How is our level 70 spell supposed to help us when it can only heal the people we've healed most likely to full HP within 30 seconds of said heal? In the vast majority of all cases, that person is going to be either one or both tanks.

Just couldn't resist that little jab at America, could you?

While I don't want to butt in on a fight, I just wanted to chime in that Valefor (JP server) is also beginning to have some PF groups bar WHM from 4.0 raid groups advertising for AST/SCH instead. So it's not just the NA servers this is happening on. Just neutral information, I'm not trying to pick a side.

YET ANOTHER ERRONEOUS ULTIMATUM!! Who in their right healing mind would ever think those two outcomes are in opposition??? (if the system stays as we know so far) you're not SUPPOSE to be wasted GCDs JUST to get procs.... you'll cure NATURALLY (just like you do now....), it just so happens when you do it naturally in the future, all your cure IIs needed in the fight will proc a lily 100% of the time. Though, I do agree the lily system is extremely passive and unpredictably rewarding* (recast reduction isn't horrible but it isn't game changing either).

The problem with this idea, is skills that you're going to use between those cures and getting lilies are going to consume all of your lilies so saving them for the oGCD you actually want to shorten isn't practical.