Thread: Consolidated White Mage 4.0 Feedback Thread

I certainly don't have any issue with people raising concerns, and I agree that the current information is worth some anxiety. ;-p But we don't get to hand-wave away the responsibility of those burying the class before we know the reality. There is a difference.

Honestly I think that the absolute BEST thing WHM could ever get to alleviate its issues in both raid utility and way to set it apart would be a way to "Overheal" an ally giving them a shield or temporary bonus HP.

Originally Posted by Guardian

Honestly I think that the absolute BEST thing WHM could ever get to alleviate its issues in both raid utility and way to set it apart would be a way to "Overheal" an ally giving them a shield or temporary bonus HP.

Strongly agree. I'll never stop asking for lilies to give the ability to break max HP limits or store and release them for emergency healing. the only time we need a pure healer is when people are taking heavy damage for maybe 5% of a fight, and that extra "pure healer" healing potency is literally worthless if there's not enough damage to require it or some way to store it for emergencies.

Originally Posted by magnanimousCynic

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This is amazing actually, I love your idea!

Throw in a cast/skill speed boost when you have lilies and/or a potency boost when you spend one on a maxHP-breaking overheal and WHM is suddenly my dream emergency healing class. Solid healing, good ramp-up centered around emergencies and heavy damage spikes, and full control over when to boost your "pure healing" to save the party from incoming wipe damage. Plus, instead of DPS "taking away" from being a healer class, DPS is boosted as a reward for pure healing.

Stuff like that is how you get me to play WHM as a "pure healer." Give me control over when to work on storing my healing, and control over when to burn through it and give it all to the party when they need it instead of wasting it on forced overhealing and unreliable cooldown reduction that's not going to increase the rate of using those abilities anyway.

Originally Posted by Guardian

Honestly I think that the absolute BEST thing WHM could ever get to alleviate its issues in both raid utility and way to set it apart would be a way to "Overheal" an ally giving them a shield or temporary bonus HP.

AHEMCall it Bubble and make it a baked in Job traitAHEM

Glad you brought it up, so I don't ha e to shamelessly repost my idea, though I'd suggest it being potency based, cappes by lillies. HP bases is a little OD on War (Despite how hilariously high the HP value would get). Can't think of potencies off the dome right now, but in essence.

0 Lillies = A few Regen ticks worth
1 Lily = Cure
2 Lillies = More than Cure but less than Cure 2
3 Lillies = Cure 2.

Usage of lillies should cause a slow degradation back to level 0 temp HP. Have HP numbers turn blue when Bubble'd. This would be a huge buff, and only require a change in code and maybe a new icon (Just jazz up fluid Aura lol)

This would be enough to almost make me not upset that the job's lost abilities weren't replaced with more iconic skills and magic. Almost. Tho that would be a 4.x patch thing (Time, resource, and current meta balance would be needed to know what can and should be added.

Originally Posted by KingFrost

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Or what you could do is have something... let's call it "Font of Healing" for lack of a better name. You'd have to cast it every time you entered an instance and every time you died, but it would "hold" your healing that over healed your target and then spread that healing as people in the group took damage. Let's say it could hold a certain (small)% of the WHM's max health in healing giving WHMs more incentive to meld VIT gear on their stuff? Then to keep it balanced, you could have it place a regen-like buff on someone receiving healing from the font say "Drinking from Font" so that the font couldn't refill while someone had this buff and the buff would only heal the amount the person was missing when it activated at the time as not to heal more as they kept taking damage.

A possibility I see would be a trait replacing divine benison for overhealing.

Overheal (Trait): Each cast of healing magic on a target that would heal them to 100% instead "Overheals" a target, granting target a temporary boost to HP. Maximum overheal is based on maximum HP of target and number of lilies stored. One lily is lost upon overhealing a target.

1 lily = 10% of target's maximum hp
2 lilies = 20% of target's maximum hp
3 lilies = 30% of target's maximum hp