White mage cross class skill question

[Pomelo]

As an AST, Eye for Eye is the only CC ability I'm envious of.

You can keep Virus, I've got Disable already, which doesn't have that sucky Antibody.

[Roxas_Andrade]

Yeah I knew I needed black to 26 that's what I'm working at currently just didn't know about eye for an eye I have a friend that mains paladin at 60 and he said he rarely sees eye for an eye now days.

Well, as a WHM, I have to tell I love E4aE. But WHM can't use it as often because the CD is longer than the ACN version, and some WHM doesn't use it because they aren't used to. When I started playing AST I really realized how much I miss E4aE, but I adapted anyway...

[ChiiSoSeriouz]

Eye for an eye is a must have, along with Swiftcast. Even with the longer cd it's invaluable.

[EnaChleo]

I'm generally not a fan of it, but it's free, and Whm has so few DECENT CC skills anyway

It only procs off physical damage and fairly low RNG to proc to begin with, but if it's free, you can't REALLY complain, especially looking at the alternatives (Nothing)

[Nekotee]

In fact it's not that low.
Since it can trigger on all auto attack and physical skill.

The only mistake people do is casting it for a physical tank buster...
When it should be cast long before that and still be up for that big hit.
Because the longer it is up and the more the target is hit the higher the chance is to reduce damage.

It's not an oh shit shield more a preventive spell.

And it should be used as often as possible because it's great ! X3
And also yeah... It's a free skill to add !

[FoxyAreku]

I don't see the ability as a big deal even in 8 man groups (as long as you have a scholar, anyway).

It's nice but not a dealbreaker from my experience.

[_slowpoke_]

I'm generally not a fan of it, but it's free, and Whm has so few DECENT CC skills anyway

E4E is an absolutely amazing skill and if you're not a fan of it yet, you should become one quickly. Good E4E upkeep in raids is really noticeable, and super useful during large pulls in dungeons. Virus is, even without the Supervirus trait, still a very good ability, too. It just sort of gotten the short end of the stick in the last raid tier because most of the important mechanics you could Virus were magical. Let's not even get started with Swiftcast, because that's arguably the best CC skill in the game (tied with Invigorate). The rest of our choices are, admittedly, lackluster or extremely situational (Blizzard II, Surecast) to outright useless (lol Ruin and Physick).