Thread: Consolidated White Mage 4.0 Feedback Thread

Originally Posted by Fyce

If N.AST shields were weaker, then they wouldn't be able to compete with SCH. Not even with Balance, now that SCH will have its own version of Battle Litany. The fairy is still an insanely good healing and mitigation tool.

So, it makes sense to give N.AST stronger shields, especially since it's pretty much their only mitigation tool with Collective Unconscious (and sometimes Bole, but, yeah...).
I even think that E4E is pretty much mandatory for N.AST, since Disable is gone.

Ugh. I could get into how this is a result of ASTs flawed design, but what's the point if SE doesn't listen to us at all.

Honestly, it'll only be a matter of time before they can't avoid the issue regardless. The drop off for play of the job at 70 inevitable, the stigma around it will stop people from wanting to even bother leveling (Honestly, given the mess 61+ is, I wouldn't blame them), and the kicks/ridicule that I'm certain will happen of the WHM once it's set in stone how much weaker it is than the other(Clearly better built and superior) healers, will be the "wake up" call they need.

For now, we just have to wait and use new abilities to say they suck, I guess. Because Confessions could be super duper handy, and stoneskin might have been OP. -_-

Originally Posted by BroodingFicus

'Viable in raids' in reference to WHM is like saying of a restaurant 'No one has had food poisoning'. That is the bare minimum requirement for all the jobs in FFXIV and not a good indication of quality.

Truth be told, I'd not be surprised if the dev team is secretly all like:
"I don't understand why they're so upset, WHM's heals are great!", as usual completely neglecting every other aspect of the jobs because hey, healers only heal, right? DPS is not taken into account (even though you'll need it until you overgear *winkwink*) and when they first talked about monk utility, they openly admitted that raid synergy had not been taken into account before either, which led to monk in particular being sidelined, hence the new utility (Nevermind the fact they then went ahead and created SAM without such for reasons). I'd not be surprised if they completely overlooked healers in that process.

Ah well! Nothing to do about it. They're gonna ignore the feedback until Omega anyway and chances are, the only feedback they'll care about then will be the statistic <.<

It's like reading a whiny bunch of kids hue hue hue.

Your players all around the world are saying "no" to this change, not only because it encourages poor play, but because the mechanic itself is flawed and forces people to hoard stacks (not using abilities) or waste lilies to do their job well. And to add insult to injury, AST is getting some really fun stuff AND gets buffs AND keeps its ridiculous Balance potency. They didn't re-balance the healers at all- they just made AST king of everything and gave SCH a consolation prize. Meanwhile the WHM is staring at their staff, wondering who they pissed off to get such a raw deal. I don't want to get booted and feel like a second-class player because I take WHM into content. I want to have fun with the mechanics you give us. Don't force me to spam Cure I and Cure II to use the fun things and feel powerful. Don't gate my big fun stuff behind lilies that get used whether I want them to be or not. Give me choices and something that makes me desirable in an end-game 8-man raid.