Consolidated White Mage 4.0 Feedback Thread

[OcieKo]

WHM's arguable problem isn't that its actions don't fit the Job; it's that the previously unique function and feel of the Job have been steadily eroded since 2.x, and the first info on 4.0 doesn't do much to reassure players that WHM will be taking steps towards reclaiming a more defined identity among the healers.

...and it doesn't help that the Lily system as presented thus far is utterly lackluster.

The speed of building it somewhat problematic, the benefit gained not so much. I keep seeing this back and forth if, saving our CDs when their useful and always wanting 3 lilies to use with it. If your not spamming your OGCDs back to back and timing them to mechanics, your not using all the CDs too close in time to each other. The only thing I'm seeing thats consistent somewhat, is you want little to no control over the building of said lilies, you just want it to build up quickly with no deliberate action taken (argument for regen ticks over casts) at this point your basically asking for NINs Ninki gauge that builds up on auto-attacks (maybe NINs will like Arrow as much as I do now). I dont see the downside of having your CD readily available sooner, or how healing people causing your tools to become available more often counters the thematic of what a WHM is.

To be honest, the mechanic could be anything thematically, but if people don't think the WHM will offer equal competition to AST & SCH raid utility, there would be the same outrage. How do I know this? Because there was no outrage at the beginning of 3.0 when AST was introduced with a card mechanic, SCH had a pet mechanic and WHM had no class mechanic at all to play with. People didn't care about that. They got angry when the new Meta rolled in after AST got loaded down with buffs and WHM dropped to third place.

Truth. Can't even say I'm happy with what's being done to ASTs current kit. Can't even believe I'll ever play with the #s we saw, and from what it seems one of our 3 big new things is a 3rd round of RNG albiet the best odds we have in our RNG at 50% but still RNG (Spread/Draw is 1/6, Royal Road is 1/3, Lord & Lady is 1/2). I think "Star Bomb" (dont kid youselves you call it this too) looks pretty and will probably be our hardest hitting spell even after its inevitable pre-release potency reductions, not the OMG TOO OP mess it is now. Tho my sig tells you my biggest complaint on ASTs less than finalized info rumormill.