grow as a CONJ to be a White Mage

[Alucielyse]

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...e-Mage-A-Guide

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[Hysterior]

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...e-Mage-A-Guide

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I red it but to be honest, maybe it makes perfect sense for you but as new player it's very confusing...

I want to focus on being a party healer, even if mean that solo part gets more complicated

but if someone said we can change allocated points once we become white mage, maybe I should invest in offence for the moment and switch to a more healing/buffing mode once white mage no?

[Kinseykinz]

I red it but to be honest, maybe it makes perfect sense for you but as new player it's very confusing...

I want to focus on being a party healer, even if mean that solo part gets more complicated

but if someone said we can change allocated points once we become white mage, maybe I should invest in offence for the moment and switch to a more healing/buffing mode once white mage no?

If you wanna be 'main' healer in a party, split your stat points between Vit and Mind. As Mind=Stronger Cures and Magic Acc. and Vit=Stonger Stoneskin/Regen/more Hp's, this is what a party needs from a healer the most. Also, getting into groups is VERY easy for leveling, so you're not loosing anything by cutting down on your 'attack' MP. I split my stats between VIT/MND and have no trouble soloing or main healing endgame. Keep in mind, you can buy INT/PIE gears for attacking if you need them.

Also, if you have them, leves are your most effective way to solo quickly. Not only do you get small rewards for doing leves, but the mobs tend to be easier, give good exp, and you get a modest exp reward at the end of each leve. As you do higher ranked leves, you can get more of an exp boost. For example, my level 45 MRD is currently getting just shy of 5k as an ending exp boost from leves...on top of what I get from killing the leve mobs. (At lower levels this is bonus exp is much lower, but typically 6-10 leves=new level) But really, if your goal is to be a main healer WHM in a party, then you should try to get into exp parties as a whm.

[Urthdigger]

you're not loosing anything by cutting down on your 'attack' MP.

Well, this isn't quite true. I'm firmly of the opinion that if you're twiddling your thumbs on WHM, and you're not out of MP, you're doing it wrong. While in either case MP isn't the big issue (Being better able to restore MP is more important... though more MP DOES seem to increase rate of MP return from Shroud of Saints and Auto-Refresh, as well as from ethers and elixirs, I'd like to say that just because you're partying, doesn't mean you won't be nuking.

Sure, there are most definitely times when you shouldn't be nuking. If it's a dangerous enough fight that you're spamming cures and regens, by all means stick nukes on the back burner. But in your average fight, a white mage should try to keep aero up on the mob, as well as magic defense down if there are black mages. If it's an AoE spamfest instead, go for Stonera and Aerora, though you might not want to ride your timers so hard on those since they eat MP like crazy. You'll also want to use Aerora if you're fighting enemies that put very nasty buffs on themselves, I don't think there's another form of dispel in the game.