White Mage's 6.1 changes fail to address a core issue I have with the job.

[Leonerdo]

[...] White Mage does not seem to be designed for working together with other healers, and more for being selfish about DPS at the expense of another healer player. [...]

You said it yourself. WHM can use Medica II if they want to save lilies for downtime. It's not 100% optimal all the time (like if your co-healer is an AST, or you're with SCH and only need 400-520 potency), but these situations are quite rare. If you want to be more selfish, that's for you and your co-healer to decide if it's worth it. WHM has already taken a large step away from being the "selfish healer" now that lilies contribute more damage and you get more of them for healing. It's not perfect, but I think fixing it would require WHM's design to be worse in other ways, for instance, by making lilies oGCD (homogenizing) or removing Misery entirely and making the lilies just do 310 damage themselves.

Thank you for being polite and specific about the feedback, though.
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As for everyone else complaining about WHM, when we just got huge buffs... I guess you really can't please everyone. This is why SQEX ignores the forums 90% of the time. No matter what they do, people will complain that their class is being destroyed.

I mean really, I had a ONE single change on my wishlist: 2 charges for Assize. I didn't even get that, but I'm still very happy with the changes we did get. After thinking about it, the extra lily every 60 seconds gives me what I wanted from Assize charges anyways: A little more healing and less cooldown drift on Assize. (At 2.45 GCD Assize would clip the GCD or drift, and now I can burn a lily more freely to decrease the drift).

I'm just astounded at some people's complete lack of gratitude. It's not healthy. And by gratitude I don't mean the social performance of thanks. I mean emotionally appreciating good things in your life.

Edit:

Provided that you can get off Misery before the boss dies:
- Lilies are now dps neutral by nature
- they are dps gain over Glare spam if Misery is used under any raid buff and/ or pot while the Lilies were used outside those windows
- they are a signifcant dps gain if a boss has downtime
- they allow for lower (or even no) Piety builds as using them saves MP while being dps neutral
The 3rd one was already the case before but it's a bigger dps gain now while also being lower risk as you generate them faster.
It doesn't solve the lack of downtime options all healers suffer from but credit where credit is due. Overall the Lily & Misery change is a noticeable buff for WHM's free healing while also being a slight dps buff. It also makes WHM/ SCH comps more viable. Is it enough to be on par with the other 3 healers in terms of dps? No. But it brings it closer to them, at least.

Hopefully more changes are coming, they did listen to the feedback and made 2 major changes that affected dps neutral healing, dps itself and MP.

This is a better mindset. WHM gained a lot today. It might not be perfect, but it's 2 or 3 steps forward.