Consolidated White Mage 4.0 Feedback Thread

[OcieKo]

So in general WHM has the lowest overall single target potential but has some of the highest, I will say, passive potential in their oGCDs and HoTs. They also consume the lowest MP out of the three healers to reach their potency numbers by a fairly decent margin (at least 10% lower than all other healers). Take into account that the numbers don't account for Thin Air either and I don't account for MP regeneration tools. In general, I'd surmise that WHMs are now the energizer bunnies of the healers and can go on for days up days of healing.

Just like there were advocates of adjusting playstyles to allow for AST/SCH to take hold, raids employing a WHM will need to change from the current optimal strategy of having healer's share responsibilities and double down on the Main Heal/Off Heal strategy employed greatly in the 2.0 era. WHMs will thrive in taking a higher responsibility of healing just by the nature of their way their kit works. It is counter intuitive to how healers are played in general and is also the crux of the main complaints towards the current WHM kit.

I don't think WHM is badly off one would think but the kit is extremely counter-intuitive mess compared to the streamlined nature of AST and SCH and thus harder to simulate compared to their competition.

A few questions about it.
I get not including Lightspeed/Thin Air to an extent since using it could be considered extra. Lucid Dreaming would cancel out so moot.
Tho Lustrate and Assize are unusable without the MP recovery, so its harder to ignore that part of MP gain in the calculations. On the note of Lustrate, why 6 instead of 9? In a 3 min test it should end just before being able to use your 4th Aetherflow for uses 10-12. I'm running this under the assumption the test begins with the need to use Aetherflow to get 3 charges.
Since its a single target test, how are you calculating confession stacks per use of Plenary Indulgence?
Assuming as such, but anyways, was Dissipation ignored in favor of embrace count? (practically speaking probably a better idea for a SCH, to keep the faerie over the healing boost)

And WHM has always felt like the strongest solo healer, to me at least, this math at least seems to agree with that. Time will tell if another Odin Trial type fight can prove it to be true in the 4.X series.