White-mage is doomed - and why

[AFuzzyMu11in]

No? Where did you even pluck that from?

My personal take is that if SE wanted to get serious about the whole barrier vs pure healer thing, Neutral Sect should have been reworked into something else. Instead we got the usual bluster and hot air followed by more underbaked shortsighted changes that don't go far enough.

But yeah, since Neutral Sect is still a thing, I'd argue that WHM should bring something else to the table instead.

The unfortunate reality is that unless you place value on it's more simplistic kit, it doesn't.

ast is loosing the shield i thought

[Sebazy]

ast is loosing the shield i thought

You'd think so with what Yoshida's been saying.

I can only assume that the class design team couldn't be bothered at this point.

[BlueMageQuina]

ast is loosing the shield i thought

They’re losing Nocturnal Sect, the shield stance. They’re keeping Neutral Sect, the shield-regen buff. They’ll still have shields for 20s every 120s.

I think this wasn’t what you were really asking though but this goes with what everyone keeps repeating—only WHM lacks aoe shielding but somehow WHM is too “powerful” to receive anything that would make it unique and give it identity.