5.0 White Mage changes

[Cheremia]

WHM uses 3 offensive skills in the trailer:
Stone animation that shoots tiny lasers
Aero 2 animation
And a red lilly attack.
ALSO holy probably still is a thing since it gets "used" for the introduction.
Aka the only unknown thing is Aero 3


Also each time you use a blue lilly ability, you gain 1 stack of the red lillie so after 3 blue lillies, you can always use that attack.

The wing bar moves on it's on on a timer as far as i can see since it moves even if the whm is just casting heals. At a certain point it makes a noise and they go into wing mode automatically.
What that mode does? Who knows, i sure don't know yet, but obviously it's like a trance mode for SMN in a way.
Only weird thing is that you go wingmode at the halfway point and the meter keeps filling and nothing happens when it reaches the end. Maybe you can use a super attack then?

Can't say i'm unhappy with the new pretty skills whm got!

[Ayer2015]

Not in the live letter, no. The only clue we have is the suspiciously one casted and one instant GCD holy dps looking spells in the job trailer.

To be honest, this is what I wanted for WHM for so long. No more Stone or Areo would be amazing

[TaleraRistain]

Stone and Aero are actually a White Mage aesthetic since the classic games, so I doubt they would replace that identity.

So are Protect and Shell :/

[Shurrikhan]

Out of curiosity, did they say they were removing Stone and Aero?

Datamining only shows Aero III removed. The others remain.

[Simhqe]

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

Im sorry, but what wings?

[DonovanLifeweaver]

basicly you guys complained so much they finally gave in to the stupid demand of the crybabies.... the only people we have to blame is those who ever forced a pacifier in the mouth of the new generation of mmo players and those who never stood up..... if people didnt want those changes they should have made it known in the first place..... but complaining over every stupid little things is the new real life trend... you guys had it coming... cant say old schoolers never warned you about protecting what you have.

[griffinborn]

So are Protect and Shell :/

lol fair. I always thought it was weird Protect became shared with other healer Jobs in the first place. I mean Divine Benison could easily have been renamed to Protect then boom, muh concepts.

[Ceasaria]

I don't know what to say.
It's hard to judge from the combat video when it's not dps spell.

Furthermore, Yoshida give us again very few informations.
Can we believe that a "real" rework of healers did 1 page compared to tank adjustements which did 3 pages ?
And, the last point about healer dps has been skipped completely ?

Since long SE seems to not care about healer, and they continue again today.

I'am not convinced at all by what we got at the live letter, existing issue leading to the balance between our 3 healers didn't seem to be adressed (even if they have taken a new direction with the "pure healer" thing).
For now, I'am waiting again that they justify their "no 4th healer excuse" by showing a deep and good rework of our role...

[Exiled_Tonberry]

Our ultimate Lily payoff makes me think, or at least hope, that they're bracing the high damage WHM identity which I'm all for.
In the trailer I didn't see any obvious barrier or utility-looking spells so I'm going with the assumption that we're still lacking in both, but if our damage is up there enough to make a difference that's fine by me.

[Vorlonshadow]

Out of curiosity, did they say they were removing Stone and Aero?

How would we level in the world think it through