White-mage is doomed - and why

[Shironeko_Narunyan]

Healers have crazy mana regen. There is zero mp management anymore in this game. I wouldn't be sad if all other healers got nerfed a little, too. And then remove instant cast heals.

[VictoriaLuv]

Healers have crazy mana regen. There is zero mp management anymore in this game. I wouldn't be sad if all other healers got nerfed a little, too. And then remove instant cast heals.

no one is saying that. what we saying is thin air being nerf is more huger then people realise

[Renathras]

Hm...I think this depends on content. Like you mentioned, static-end-game vs all other content/players in the game.

I liked the old Thin Air, but it didn't recover MP as far as I'm aware. Assize does, and we use that on CD. We also get two free Cure 2/Medicas per minute because of Lilies - Afflatus Solace and Rapture having the same potency as Cure 2 and Medica, and we have a number of oGCDs that fit in here as well, for example, Tetra is basically another Cure 2.

I do all the way up to Extremes and want to try Savage in EW, but I could see Savage and Ultimates using Thin Air a lot. Anything less than that, though, it's not strictly necessary. I've used it for the Varis Phase 1->2 transition and SoSEx and HadEx Doom timers, but it's not really NEEDED I just want to have MP left when I'm done with the Cure 3 spam.

Because WHM still gets a lot of healing from Lilies and oGCD healing, our MP isn't as much of a problem as it might otherwise be, and healers actually melding Piety again is probably not the worst thing in the world...

...but I DO agree that if ONLY WHM is having to do that and the other healers are not, that could become a problem and make WHM less than optimal.

I don't believe it is "doomed" by any measure. Even in SB when WHM was undoubtedly the weakest healer it was still prized in prog for outright brute force healing potency as well as in single healer late farm, and it was never NOT capable in the middle normal farm, it was just less desired.

I believe WHM will always have a spot as a powerful and approachable healer, which is useful in prog and, if you're in a static that gets through prog, it's not like your group is suddenly going to dump you because you're not playing the "optimal" Job since they already got clears with you unless you're a mean person or weren't playing well to begin with.

At least, this is my thinking. /shrug