I want the game designers to show us WHM-s how to play optimally without clipping

[Sebazy]

My simple view on this is that at least as far as healers are concerned, the job design team have been making healers for a game that simply doesn't exist anymore. The disconnect between the job and content designers is just bizarre at this stage.

With some very simple adjustments to cool down timers and the addition of a tank heal, a Dancer could comfortably heal a group through most casual content up until Extremes and frankly, it'd be more enjoyable than a real healer IMHO.

[Aurida]

(...) why on earth would I just "clip lmao" when I can play AST which does literally everything WHM does with full mobility.

That's a question you really gotta dig down inside yourself to answer, but it seems like 'the depth of the toolkit' and 'it feels bad to use oGCDs between glare casts' are separate issues which require separate solutions here.

[WaxSw]

To do that the devs would have to play a healer to begin with

[Jaelommiss]

My simple view on this is that at least as far as healers are concerned, the job design team have been making healers for a game that simply doesn't exist anymore. The disconnect between the job and content designers is just bizarre at this stage.

It seems like healers were designed to allow tanks and dps to have fun. Dying as a dps when your healer is struggling with their downtime skillset if "not fun" so healers can't have more than one attack spell that might distract them. Dying because your healer doesn't know how to use more than the basic healing spell they got at level 2 is "not fun" so everything before extremes has no healing requirement.

I desperately hope I'm wrong about this but I haven't seen anything in game or from SE to suggest otherwise.

[cheolsu]

If you don't really play WHM, why even post on a subject you have no knowledge about?

Clips are 100 potency loss not 50, the decline in healer ability is due to overall simplification, giving Glare the Malefic treatment fixes nothing with the depth of the toolkit, if you're "doing your job" as you say Assize is far from your only clip given any sort of unplanned heal or emergency, saying that a clip is "having to play the game" is ridiculous given nearly every job in the game can play with 0 clipping and why on earth would I just "clip lmao" when I can play AST which does literally everything WHM does with full mobility.

embrace the clip. let go of your anger. there isn't any content white mage can't clear. you really are bent out of shape over your fflogs score. it's bad for your health

[Payadopa]

embrace the clip. let go of your anger. there isn't any content white mage can't clear. you really are bent out of shape over your fflogs score. it's bad for your health

Leave it to players to min-max the fun out of everything. For some people it's like an obsession at this point.

[Acece]

If a job gets feels worse the better you play it then it's a badly designed job Imo.

[Mortex]

Leave it to players to min-max the fun out of everything. For some people it's like an obsession at this point.

I mean it’s not even about min max with whm. The job is just so clunky it does really feel bad . Like when you try astro in comparison and get used to it, you do feel like you are using cheats in comparison. And I whas whm mains since ages and swapped too astro mid shadowbringer. Astro got it all like mobility, dmg reducing bubble on 60 second cd that you only need to tap for a strong hot and the 10 % reduce for 5 full seconds, strong ogcd heals that you can weave in all spells, mobility because light speed can be used however you wanna use it now and better and it can 100 % heal the tank (40% more single target heal with synastry ) when you do dps in like 4 seconds so even the living dead excuse for benediction doesn’t work well either. Like astro is so stacked in comparison too whm (that has his own spell speed buff on 150 seconds cd so it doesn’t even line up with anything) it’s insane. The only problem astro has is that it is every expansion early really bad until they buff it so massive it runs atleast whm in the ground or if you don’t need shields anymore replaces scholar so whm can go full dps and heal never and let astro heal almost all ogcd solo.

[Mortex]

If a job gets feels worse the better you play it then it's a badly designed job Imo.

Also don’t forget the last strong buff whm got was in Stormblood in the form of a 15 second cast time decrease on assize that was over 2 years ago. Whm got so little in over 4 years it’s insane and too add even more insult it was forced to share some of it exclusive tools that were good with other healers in stormblood. So whm lost more good stuff then it gained and then they can’t even give blood lily a 300 potency buff too make it dmg neutral.

[Semirhage]

This just in, wanting a job to be designed well is just min-maxing the fun out of it. Embrace bad design.

Healer Stockholm syndrome is strong.