Quote Originally Posted by ty_taurus View Post
New WHM Direction Summary
For a different perspective, the inspiration from BLM that I had in mind was the Umbral Ice/Astral Fire mechanic.

You can be an Ice mage. It's safe. It's cozy. But even at a casual level, a simple reading of your tool tips strongly suggests that this is not how you should be playing. The real game is, "How much Fire can I greed?" You can play it on easy mode (go back to Ice while you still have thousands of MP). You can play it on hard mode (drain every last bit of MP and hope you timed it right so that you have a free Ice cast). Either way, it's a risk/reward game with a goal that you can aspire towards.

It doesn't copy to a healer exactly as-is, but I think the spirit could. Spamming heals is safe. It's cozy. But even at a casual level, something about the kit should encourage you to play the game of balancing damage and heals.

Another mechanic I was thinking of for inspiration is DRK's Blackest Night. You can spam it on cooldown, but there's a clear incentive to use it only when it's actually useful. The WHM equivalent might be that you can spam lily heals, but you nourish the blood lily only in proportion to how much of the healing was actually useful. Play smarter, not harder, that sort of thing.