Nuking WHM stats

[Catapult]

I am actually a real fan of the DD WHM (hereafter referred to as White Cleric). Yes, the DPS is lower than most other classes including Black Mage. BUT...!

- Your MP to damage ratio is as good as, if not better than a Thaumaturge (I didn't say black mage, due to Convert).

- You don't need to go as fast as a Black Mage can, because that is a recipe for stealing hate. Even using White Cleric against Ifrit, I still find I'm slowing down to avoid having the king of the inferno shove his claws down my collarbone.

- A Black Mage using tier 3 spells in a long fight is doing it wrong anyway. You don't need tier 3 spells. As a white cleric, I swap between aero and stone, only using stonera or aeora if there is a specific elemental weakness the mob has or I must remove a buff.

- If something goes wrong (and it does more often than any of us would like to admit), you have amazing survival capabilities (Stoneskin, Sentinel, Rampart, Featherfoot) and recovery abilities handy (Second Wind, White Magic).

- You have debuffs that other classes don't. Magic Evasion Down is good for the black mages comboing thunder-thundara and a powerful aero's bleed effect is nothing to sneeze at.

- Your MP recovery is far more reliable and less life-threatening than with black magic.

- Against lesser mobs, just about anything works anyway.

- You have a "Holy F***" button.

- You don't have to worry as much about positioning due to the ability to attack at range and you don't have to worry about your arrows running out at just the wrong time either.


You can swap your Healer's Gloves out for a Boarskin Ringband of Tremors or Gales. Likewise your Cirlet and Robe to whatever you would wear as a Thaumaturge. Pull on some Black Pearl or Zircon Rings, equip a Jade Crook double-melded for buffing or attacking and you're more than set.


Yes, I have no objections to class-stacking white mages.