Consolidated White Mage 4.0 Feedback Thread

[Yuyuka3]

I think this is where the community and dev team mentality diverge. The assumption always becomes 'Pure Healer' = 'Bigger Heals', and nobody is willing to think about other direct-path solutions.

And that's what they're delivering. Look at what they've presented with WHM so far. More oGCD heals with no MP cost. Lower cooldowns on oGCD heals. We've kept our existing passive heals. Potential healing bonuses on party members that are actively taking damage more often than their counterparts (confessions).

They're giving us the tools to spend fewer real and virtual resources on healing. WHM is efficient with it's MP. Efficient with it's GCDs. Efficient with the players attention. Efficient with it's commitment to whatever task it's performing at that exact moment. We get the job done, then move on to doing something else.

It's not as clever or powerful as some SCH and AST abilities, but I'm not entirely convinced it won't be satisfying or effective.

Where is the point in this if the other two healers can get the job done just as well, if not better, but also bring something else on top of it? There is none. Efficiency won't get you anywhere when somebody else can do your job even while NOT being efficient. Also, I wouldn't really call what they showed super efficient, either... too much RNG, too much usage of skills required I most definitely DON'T want to spam. Efficiency looks different to me, sorry.

Thank you. You don't understand.

Fixed that for you.

[Kethic]

Where is the point in this if the other two healers can get the job done just as well, if not better, but also bring something else on top of it? There is none.

That is the question and the assumption, now, isn't it? Why would a healer want more flexibility or efficiency? Are we really sure the other two healers bring more, or just different? I've read almost every page of this thread, and even the crunchiest posts come back to 'I guess we will see'.

The point in this, as you put it, is that we can't analyze something correctly if we don't understand the problem they're trying to solve. I AM convinced that we have no idea of their performance metrics at the moment.