Concerns with Astrologian in Endwalker

[Risvertasashi]

Secondly Balance:

In Endwalker WHM's glare is being buffed threefold while malefic is unchanged. First it is just getting 10 more potency to 310. Second it is reduced to 1.5s cast time, which increases the damage two ways. First this removes caster tax, which is the 0.1s extra delay a spell's cast time. Caster tax means that a 2.5s spell cast actually takes 2.6s before you can cast the next spell, while a 1.5s spell cast (1.6s with tax) will take 2.5s gcd before the next spell cast. This is basically a 4% damage buff at normal 2.4s gcds. It's as if glare did 12 potency more damage. Imagine if glare did 322 potency right now, compared to malefic's 250 potency, that is crazy. Finally being reduced to 1.5s cast time also makes it easier to cast as many spells as possible, by being able to move more freely and also weave ogcds more freely. For example you can now weave Assize whenever you want which can also potentially save healing gcds.

I'd just like to point out that AST is the top damage dealing healer right now, while white mage is on the bottom. So, perhaps white mage needs a bit of a buff to keep a meta from forming against it?

But one way or another, it shows just how misleading worrying about the potency of a single spell is.

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And even then, none of this really matters because Endwalker is turning all the damage calculations on its head and we don't know exactly how stuff is going to shake out yet.

Still, it's exceptionally silly to get potency-jealous of the lowest damage healer's nuke while playing the highest damage healer.

[ForteNightshade]

I'd just like to point out that AST is the top damage dealing healer right now, while white mage is on the bottom. So, perhaps white mage needs a bit of a buff to keep a meta from forming against it?

I suspect it's to balance that Misery is actually now an even bigger DPS loss for White Mage due to it no longer needing to create weaving spaces through "wasted" Lilies. Momo has an excellent breakdown of this in his overview of White Mage.

[Risvertasashi]

I suspect it's to balance that Misery is actually now an even bigger DPS loss for White Mage due to it no longer needing to create weaving spaces through "wasted" Lilies. Momo has an excellent breakdown of this in his overview of White Mage.

It may well be. But the point still stands. AST is the highest damage healer. WHM is the lowest damage healer.

Acting like AST is somehow far behind and only getting further by looking at the potency of one spell is very misleading and very silly. (And especially complaining about the cast tax - Glare being effectively longer than the GCD should be treated as a reduction in potency - adding potency when it's no longer there is yet another blatantly misleading number fudge)