Thread: Consolidated White Mage 4.0 Feedback Thread

Ok, so I finished leveling WHM and I really liked the changes until I hit 70. 20% chance of procing Confession stacks feels bad, and the 30sec duration even worse.

I have to admit the fact we are already solo healing the new extreme primals means that an AST is all you should ever take. Buffing up the party's damage while allowing the other healer slot to be a DPS couldn't be any more optimized for damage. What a joke this expansion is for healers so far.

Originally Posted by xNewbx

I have to admit the fact we are already solo healing the new extreme primals means that an AST is all you should ever take. Buffing up the party's damage while allowing the other healer slot to be a DPS couldn't be any more optimized for damage. What a joke this expansion is for healers so far.

You are solo healing with a good group.... The average group will need two healers

Originally Posted by Reiryuu

Let's look at the bright side. At least we already know what WHM is getting in 5.0.

- Stone V
- Aero IV
- A 10th healing spell.
- 2 more traits worth of lilies due to button bloat fears.

This is the scary thing, given the track record of SE you just know most of the new spells in the future will be using Lillies or the confession system. A lot like how they use FATEs and Hunts.

So now that I'm 70 on WHM and have played with the new stuff a bit, there are two big changes I'd like to see:
1. Give us a Dark Arts style ability for lily consumption. The RNG makes it difficult to use Benison, as several key abilities that see regular use consume the lilies whether I want them to or not.
2. Make the Confessions for Plenary Indulgence more consistent. If the ability needs to be retuned a bit to compensate, that's fine, but the buffs are so inconsistent I can't really count on the heal being there when I need it, so it becomes something I basically just spam on CD with a 1 stack, which is to say I'd never miss the healing it offers if it simply didn't exist and I use it more for the sake of using it to feel like I stuck it to RNGesus and the game than I do because it's helpful. Additionally, the UI is not well suited to keeping track of Confessions durations on others, further increasing the difficulty of making good use of this ability.

Originally Posted by Risvertasashi

If Divine Benison didn't have a lily requirement, I would use it for every tankbuster. But gating it behind RNG or a required cure II... just really limits its potential.

Yeah, noticed this in susanoo ex, got a divine out on the tank maybe 1/2 the time for the tankbuster, main problem nothing can do to gain a lily while everyone is healed or when you have to use a lily quickly one something else like a tetra or assize... Also noticed when stuff starts hitting the fan definitely find medicas, cure III, and regans far more reliable than cure and cure II, so lily production pretty much vanishes during those heavy mechanic moments. Another thing noticing not really using Plenary all that much, way too useless, sometime get lucky using it maybe once or twice in the fight to save a tiny MP but... in the moment it actually seems better to just use the cure or cure II for a stupid lily instead... so yeah...

Originally Posted by Risvertasashi

If Divine Benison didn't have a lily requirement, I would use it for every tankbuster. But gating it behind RNG or a required cure II... just really limits its potential.

It's different from a stoneskin or a shield.
Your co healer (Ast or Sch) will use shield before a tank buster.
Divine Bension is for after a tankbuster.

The way how it's designed (locked behind Lilies), I use Cure II + Divine Bension after a tankbuster, not before.
It's a good maneer to prevent the tank to die with an auto-attack, or other damages after.