Thread: Consolidated White Mage 4.0 Feedback Thread

Let's try to stay positive, at least you can see the positive aspect of the mp management that's been quite nicely balanced, if it goes as i think it should:

All three healer get a 21S shroud from cross skill
WHM loses his shroud
AST loses his lumi
SCH loses the 20% on aetherflux (i would be surprised he doesnt while having access to shroud and not losing his main mp management skill)

leaving them with, as personnal mp skills:
Assize (10%) for WHM
CO and Ewer for AST
Drain for Sch

Which, in my opinion, seems quite decent for all 3. Both AST and SCh mp management get nerfed, WHM get boosted, but all 3 seems to finaly get close to each other in this aspect.

Assuming CO can still extend the new shroud replacement, yes.

Reading thru the thread I see the underlining issue..... You have casual players arguing with core players about how the Devs should cater their game to such-and-such side.. It's possible to fine tune a Job to be fairly simple to use and enjoy for causal AND at the same time provide specificity the Core players can optimize....

HOwever our current ISSUE for CORE PLAYERS IS.... whm current design ISN'T OPTIMAL for CORE players over that of the other two healers (like someone stated there isn't enough sustained raid dmg to merits whm consistently superior HPS.....everything can be optimally covered by Sch's Bursts and AST's decent HPS and their combined utilities).

What we CORE hope for is that IF whm mages becomes a PURE HEALER.... make the other two not as PURE; not to where ast/sch can't sufficiently complete the content but to where an ast/whm or an whm/sch fills a gap(s) that are noticeable over that of ast/sch. Basically it should have a trade-off for each healer composition. if AST provides consistent raid DPS then their healing should suffer noticeably to that of the other healers. IF sch has OP shields and reduction utility their their instant healing (stuff like emergency tactic, indom,......F*#$ing broken...) should be nonexistent or on on extremely long cds (30 sec on a raid oGCD is a f*$#ing joke...... and it's more potent then a GCD helio/medica is just wrong.......) . Lastly Whm being a pure healer should have the highest regen and instant healing abilities but lack shields and other dmg reduction abilites (which it is already designed like that).

We have to wait an see what the utilites for each class are AS WELL AS the content that demands these utilities (that's really what made current WHM obsolete)

I thought it was spectacular. It gave me that push I needed to finally get my AST to 60 in time for SB. Thanks SE!

/s

I get it. We don't know exactly what it'll be like on release, but it's not looking good, and what I've learned is, if it smells bad, it probably tastes bad. I get that the Dev's have this vision of WHM being the pure healer, but unfortunately, come SB, the community is about to show them why that just isn't going to work. At least for raiding anyway.