Thread: 2.4 patch notes

Soooo....at some point, I need to start doing FL's again because 'light farming' and ranking (currently rank 40). Buuuut: They made it so WHM (the role I not only main, but really only want to queue as due to light farming), is basically nerfed to the point that having more than one in each party is pointless. So I either have to knowingly say 'screw you all, my lights are more important than wins' and hardnose being a WHM if their are multiple in a group, or swap to SCH/SMN and hope I can be useful that way. I understand that they nerfed the stacking due to how the JA database is using WHM's in play....but man, that was a little cold, esp to other data centers that didn't rely on WHM stacking near as much...add to that the swiftcast nerfs and if anything, I see smn stacking being the 'new' thing in the near future (stacking DOT's that can only be removed via a single-targeted, single buff esuna'd AND now no 'stacked HOT's to compensate the health loss from stacked DoT's)....oh and SMN's can cast many of their DOT's faster than the other mages can cast their respective spells AND have 'spread' abilities etc to make the damage far worse.

Still, my biggest gripe isn't the HOT stacking loss, its that this coupled with the CS nerf (which effectively nerfed holy), there's little to no reason to WANT more than 1 WHM in your party now. No other job atm quite suffers this stigma.

I guess instead of the 'swan' look SE should have made WHM the 'duck' since all we are now is sitting ducks anyway.