Consolidated White Mage 4.0 Feedback Thread

[javid]

So Yoshi said something slightly worrying in a recent interview. It's not concerning WHM, or even healers, but SAM. SAM is apparently made purposely extremely strong, and to balance it they simply consider it a job for "pros" and that it's more advanced than other jobs.

The thing about this game though is, once you find your rotation and do it for a while, the difficulty in your job is almost non existent. Assuming everyone is playing at a similar skill cieling, this just means certain jobs will be stronger and offer more just because they're considered advanced from the devs.

If this is true!!! This is the point I've been making throughout the forum this whole time lol. SE rewards "harder to execute" jobs with perks (typically increase in dps). WHM is not as hard, to manage as AST or SCH... hence why WHM is less rewarding than SCH & AST.

There SHOULD BE A GAP!!!! if the WHM ceiling is lower than the AST ceiling. It shouldn't matter if both players are proficiently mastering their class! the AST has more to do so he needs more reward!! SAme thing for SCH. SCH has waaaaaaaaaaaaay more to do than WhM so SCH should be rewarded WAAAYYYY MORE!!

On the flip side; ppl you have to consider both sides, B/c jobs like WHM (and current PLD for another example) are EASIER to manage; they are more forgiving in content, more CONSISTENTLY dependable. So you'll have serious players that want to raid but understand they don't consistently have the aptitude to play jobs like SCH or future SAM optimally and safety; so they go instead WHM and MNK....and they will still be able to clear all content and enjoy the game! BUT THEY WONT GET TOP TIER RAID FFLOGS NUMBERS! And really what does logs matter?? (fyi i love logs...)

The meta will try to marginalize jobs like WHM and (current PLD and current MNK), but the nominal ffxiv mass of ppl can seldom perform at the high rate of efficiency required to make "best comp" do more dps than any other comp..... (Or do we already forget 4.0 is changing the way it is....b/c the masses found it too "hard"......... now these same ppl that found it too hard want the easier jobs to be just as rewarding as the harder jobs........)

If the Devs refuse to show love to Whm ...

It's not that WHM has not received any "love"; instead it's the community (a portion of it) hasn't appreciated the "kind" of "love" SE is showing it. SE is trying to keep our beloved WHM easy to manage and highly dependable!! This is the form of love WHM and classes like it will recieve!

If ppl want a more end-game, max ilv, competitive fflogs healer out of the WHM, then EXPECT the rigorous addendum SE would be required to implement in that process! You'd no longer just have 7 cds, no longer 60 sec or longer recast, no longer GCD answers to every single mitigation requirement............UNLESS ppl want an OP healer that takes the least effort of the 3 healer options???