5.0 White Mage changes

[Fawkes]

It seems like they heard a complaint about 'having nothing to do but throw rocks' and interpreted it as not liking the stone effect, instead of the actual complaint of not liking the lack of complexity.

[Volgera]

I've been playing white mage since 2.0 and I have to say, I'm mildly concerned. I think overall a lot of the changes are going to be good but I'm nervous about the DPS aspect. I really pride myself in being a good healer who contributes a lot to the DPS while still doing my job to the fullest on the healing end as well. I like helping to speed runs along and it's always fun to spam holy and play a game of chicken on how long you can go before you need to heal the tank. (My friend tanks for me, so don't worry. I know some tanks hate that cause they don't trust random healers lol).

Anyway, I'm excited for the more instant heals. But yeah, I have to admit.... those wings are hideous. Really tacky, I'm not happy about them AT ALL. Nope, nope, nope. I even hated them with the prismatic wings consumable item you could get from weddings (I think it was?). Just looks stupid imo.

I play exactly like you. If they drop off the DPS side of WHM I think its time to move to another class. Perhaps its time to give Tanking a shot since I was BLM/BRD in 2.0 -> SCH/DRG in 3.0 - > WHM/BRD in 4.0. Thank God i've got evertything up to 70.

[odintius]

For me yes the wings seems cool but kinda not detailed bland looking. The lilies I'm curious how long for lilies charges if too long might as well been still using spells and prey there up certain situations. The pure healer for all job I'm curious on this statement alone are they going to add more heal check more damage if not we'll umm sorry to say my regens will still cover most situations >.>

[Auryan]

Remove DPS? What? Did no one pay attention to when they mentioned the Black Lilies? That they give access to strong offensive spells? Holy II or something, if I remember correctly.
Can't comment on the change of aesthetic to a more divine/light look. I kind of dig it, but hope that the other elements aren't just...gone.

[Coltvoyance]

Remove DPS? What? Did no one pay attention to when they mentioned the Black Lilies? That they give access to strong offensive spells? Holy II or something, if I remember correctly.
Can't comment on the change of aesthetic to a more divine/light look. I kind of dig it, but hope that the other elements aren't just...gone.

People are skimming over a lot of other threads and posts that provide information that might quell their fears but oh well. This is how it will be for a bit. The internet misinformation train continues to roll.

[Lunalepsy]

Is anyone else really worried about what's happening to WHM? I've mained WHM for as long as i've played this game and I'm getting seriously bummed out about the aesthetic changes. My first big problem is the wings, I just can't stand how tacky they look, they won't look good with anything that isn't a white wedding dress and not everyone wants to look like that... what happened to the more utilitarian aesthetic of the old artifact armor? Its just dresses and frills now... My problem is that these wings only play to that one aesthetic.

Lastly, white mage never really had any damage identity outside of holy, until FF14 where we got stone and aero, now that they seem to be taking it away what's going to be left of the conjurer aesthetic? To me that's the equivalent of taking away Black Mage's fire and blizzard.

Sorry if this seems a bit ranty, I needed a place to dump my stress. I don't want to lose my favorite class

Indeed! The wings look tacky and out of place. Why do we need to associate them with "angels" in the first place? Also, I hope they don't remove our firepower because pure healing sounds so boring and repetitive.

[Aristotle]

Pure healing is a snoozefest. I can get that experience in other MMOs. Having the option to DPS is what makes it fun. If they truly are removing offensive spells from our toolset, I can't see myself enjoying this class anymore. Unless they close the huge discrepancy in difficulty between MSQ and Savage, we are always going to have downtime.

[AmiRose]

I'm sure the healers will still have offensive spells.
The LL said they want to emphasize on healing, this doesn't mean solely focusing on healing.

Honestly, I think the wings are kinda cute? For me they were a selling point to play my WHM again but I can understand why some people would dislike them.

[Windsun33]

I would assume it's just the next power up of stone and aero. I guess they'll still be there but in lower content where you're sync.

Maybe not. It is looking like all aspected/elemental damage is going away, and that includes stone. Being replaced with ... something(?).

[Windsun33]

Nowhere in the letter was anything about reducing WHM dps mentioned. Another panic over something that never happened.