Thread: Consolidated White Mage 4.0 Feedback Thread

Originally Posted by DreamWeaver

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BUT, the critical thing is, the RADIUS of this spell is a whooping 30 yalms.

TLDR: Everytime you cast Cure/II, you have a 20% chance of healing everybody for 400 potency.

That's hell alot of healing, but of course, if the game does not demand it, its still useless V_V.

Thats not how the lvl 70 Spell works. Each time you heal a target, that target will get a confession stack at a chance of 20%. Sounds good, the downside is huge and makes this additional potency thingy pretty lame. Okay, 20% chance, makes it 15 casts of cure1/2 to give the mt 3 confession stacks (MT because hes the only one who gets healed by cure1/2). So, now you using the lvl70 ability, and everyone gets healed by 400 pot and mt by 600 pot. Now question it. Is main tank in need of a 200 pot higher aoe heal? Pretty much no (Let alone because he already has a high defense value wich makes that kinda pointless.

Also question how crazily long it will take to cast 15! cure 1/2. Even if you chaincast them for whatever reason you will end up with 45 seconds at least. Now a good whm doesnt chaincast and so you have to put plenty of other healing cooldowns inbetween your 15 cures. Let it be regen, medica, medica 2, stone, holy, aero3 whatever. Tetragrammaton, Assize too, because even if it doesnt add more cooldown time, its effect of healing also lowers the amount of cure1/2 you need during that time. You can easily end up with getting the 3 stacks after 90-120 seconds. Also note confession falls of after 30 seconds.

Originally Posted by DreamWeaver

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YOure talking "plenary indulgence"!!

Finally a skill that is true to a WHM/ pure healer!! Current system's 30 recast ogcd INDOM at 400 potency was shitting on us WHM's. NOW we get a real oGCD aoe with a 15 sec recast!!!! and varying potency(400, 500, 600) with a 30 radius. 30 radius is the largest radius in game so there isn't an issue at all with being centered. If your 25 yalm medica2 hits everyone.... your 30 yalm PI will LULz it way to the very edges of the arena!!!


Another note:
We can't know if we're suppose to be disappointed or satisfied just yet.............WE NEED to see these utilities in CONTENT..... Content will make or break us (make or break any job for that matter.)

Originally Posted by Reiryuu

...nonsense...

Talk about a troll....

Anyways. the probability is of 20% chance of getting a confession is like 1 of 5 cures. And the more cures over 5 you output the more chances of at least getting 1 and potentially more. so lets just be funny and say RNG shits on us every pull each pull always and we only get 1 confession every 10 cures (half of the listed probability). That would mean an effect recast time of 10 gcds (20sec- 25 sec recast). that's still a 400 minimum potency with a 20-25 sec recast, ogcd, centered off the target for 30 yalms.... it will reach everybody..... (even if the tank is 6 yalms directly in front of the party that's still 24 yalms effective aoe around the party.. basically the same as medica ii 25 yalm radius).

So yea that is a very reliable skill IFF PI is the only utility that consumes confessions. ( And the confession stack last 30 sec so u can most definitely prep it pre pull the way we stack buff now b4 a pull.)

Mind you this is all on top of the cures we still have and asylum and medica and assize and tetragram and Benny.....so hardly (just on the basis of ability in a vaccum) is SE telling us to go play AST/SCH


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FOR YOU NERD OUT THERE!!! the probability of landing AT LEAST 1 confession out of 5 attempts given a 20% success rate is 67% chance; getting at least 1 out of 10 attempts jumps your chances up to 89%; and finally getting at least 1 out of 12 attempts is 93% chance!! 67% is a bit meh... but anything upward of 80% is dependable. And the gcd cost for 80%+ reliability is 20-30 sec [effective recast of the ability].

Yes anything less than 100% is not SCRIPT rotation reliable and min/max'ers will complain about SE adding more RNG to the game (but RNG is good in the form of dynamic play. Rather than a static test of how well you can memorize a sequence then execute).

It's pretty clear in my eyes that PI is going to be one beastly mashup of Synastry and a tank specific Lustrate during early progression or phases of significant sustained incoming damage across one or both tanks. The more damage that's coming in, the more HPS this ability will churn out (to the extent where I suspect it'll handily outstrip the loss of throughput from DS in new raid tiers at release). If you're basing your opinion of this on Creator with Echo or Dun boredom then frankly, you're missing the point of it.