White mage a Mage first, Healer second

[Connor]

Lol.. the fact that people calling this rework as a DPS WHM is something I dont understand..

I really didn't add any new abilities.. it is like glare but 3 versions of it they do as glare do but having additional effect..

Instead of spamming glare you just mix elements to get additional effect

I mean, personally I think what ffxiv has done with White Mage has created what’s essentially a ‘ffxiv specific WHM’ that’s not the same thing as ‘traditional ff White Mage’.

A FFXIV WHM is a dps-heavy healer that utilised elemental and light magic to attack enemies and turns healing into dps.

A traditional ff WHM is much more oriented around support, with various buffs, debuffs, status effects and generally very few offensive abilities except from outside sources (i.e subbing Black Magic or Summoning).

Personally, I’d much rather they leaned towards the ‘traditional white mage’ concept than a ‘new ffxiv style WHM’. But then, that’s very clearly not what they’ve done lol.

Basically in terms of FFXIV WHM all the suggestions for changes and dps spells make sense for how the game works. But as someone who’s always playing mainline FF games I just look at WHm and think ‘nooo that’s not right White Mages can’t use that spell that’s not how they’re supposed to beeeee!’ *Soyjack face* lol.