White Mage healing skills math

[Pikken]

Did some math for the White Mage healing skills. I wanted to calculate the skills' efficiency (healing per MP). And also the raw healing output (healing per time).

The table in the link shows the summary. The Time for the HoT skills is the total time for the HoTs duration.

Skill chart

Some conclusions (No overhealing is assumed):

* If you wanna be MP efficient you should use:
- Regen
- Cure I
- Medica II (with as many targets as possible of course)

* If you wanna burst heal without regard to MP efficiency, you should use:
- Cure II
- Cure III, or better yet a Cure III crit proc. (with as many targets as possible)

* For single target healing Regen is by far the most efficient, almost twice as efficient as Cure I.

* Medica II only needs two targets to be more efficient that Cure I.

* Putting Regen on seven people is as MP-efficient as doing one Medica I on seven. But much slower

[Warchild_Zek]

Thanks for the math.

Just fyi for new players, this is the standard formula. So if you're coming from one of the popular MMO's there is no change, other than medica II only needing 2 targets for efficiency (typically you need 3).

[Marxam]

Im lvling up my whm (lvl 46) and this sounds pretty good. I'm currently just spamming cure I and hoping the free cure kicks in. It's worked so far but got any tips for endgame content and 8 mans. I seem to have a bit more trouble with the 8 mans due to a lot of things going on at once and I'm on PS3 so the UI sometimes doesn't want to co-operate.

[WhoIsTheGuest]

On 8 mans...usually it comes down to whether your team makes many mistakes.
The more mistakes, the higher chance of you running out of MP...especially if someone died and you need to cast Resurrect, it is MP costly.
The advice is really situational...some boss fights, not much AoE going around, so generally putting a Regen will do; but on others more intensive ones, you may need to heal your teammates back to full health ASAP (also very dependent on the timing of boss's skill).
Best advice: practice makes perfect After knowing the pattern, you will know what is the best spell to cast under every situation.

[Krisstina]

How about add an enmity column~~
That's more important to WHM~

[soshifood]

Very interesting and valuable table. I've seen plenty of WHMs skip on Regen against Caduceus in Turn 1 because they're afraid of grabbing aggro. Seems like it would be better to save shroud for the split rather than not casting Regen at all.

[Syncness]

Refer to my signature for other maths.

How about add an enmity column~~
That's more important to WHM~

Refer to my signature again.

[sharazisspecial]

Thank you for your work and info . It is very useful. Nice contribution to the healing forums.

[CompSci88]

Kinda off-topic, but does Determination affect healing?

[Syncness]

Kinda off-topic, but does Determination affect healing?

Yes, pretty small gains though.