Thread: Consolidated White Mage 4.0 Feedback Thread

Originally Posted by Lunaxia

RNG does not belong on WHM?

...Hasn't RNG been on WHM this entire time, though?

I have been a WHM since the beginning. Why is your team taking one of the most iconic jobs in the whole game and turning it into a joke? I am begging you Yoshi please make WHM viable again. Make it a job we can all be proud of again.

Aye. As a WHM from the beginning of ARR till now these changes basically strip out all of the love WHM had and makes it available to other healers. Looks like I'm not healing anymore.

Please, SE, reconsider buffing WHM so that it is an equal choice with SCH and AST.

I too am here to say I have mained WHM since 2.0 and feel like they've left the job without any utility going forward. I don't think I'll be levelling it for the expansion looking at the current stuff.

I just don't understand how they looked at the feedback of "WHM is in a bad place, the healing is good but they have subpar utility compared to both other healers" and came up with "Ah, well what they want is to spam Cure more"

It's pretty egregious when compared to the Paladin. Paladins got a mechanic that either builds up steadily or fast but randomly, AoE, magic mitigation, and a way to use mana to do damage. All of those are complaints that have dogged the paladin for the whole time it's been around. White mages LOST ability to prevent damage, have a completely random mechanic that has additional random parts to it(20% cure/2 you get a lily, 20% on a crit cure/2 assize/asylum cooldowns reduced, 20% cure/2 your party members get a confession), and gained no utility that isn't just damage or healing. They addressed the paladins' complaints thematically, interestingly, and made the job both more viable and fun in the process. White mages got nothing adressed, and rely even more on frustrating random chances to make them feel like a unique class.

Throwing my voice into the crowd so SE might pay more attention. This was my initial reaction upon

Met> First
Met> Why is it RNG?
Met> Second, why is it based on spells a WHM wouldn't be using?
Met> Third, why is Stoneskin on a 60 second cooldown? And why does it cost our guage?
Met> Fourth, the confessional system
Met> Why is THAT rng too?
Met> Why does it get built up with single target casts, but spent on an AoE?
Met> When will I EVER cast Cure or Cure II on someone not the MT?

I didn't even think they were serious about removing SS because what reason did they have to do that? I just assumed people were overreacting and it just wasn't in the screenshot at the time.

They could bake in a buff into Confession. Give them a defense boost per stack. Have them get 'Tailwind' instead to increase speed.

Was going to main WHM going forward as I did since buying the game but now I'm really considering dropping it for AST, or even drop healing all together and just main RDM.

and another tidbit from Discord...

[2:29 PM] N: Can we stop beating the fresh dead corpse of WHM
[2:29 PM] N: let it rest in pieces intact

Hey...SE...even other players that DON'T PLAY WHM ARE SAYING IT'S DEAD.