Thread: Consolidated White Mage 4.0 Feedback Thread

Originally Posted by Feidam

In ARR initially, the cure and cure2 was to utilize the traits and maintain mana efficiency. I wonder if they are attempting to enforce that again?

And then make the most mana efficient heal, Regen, not contribute to the system at all...?

The most mana efficient way to heal (and often most efficient way in general) is to let Regen do the job and use your OGCD abilities as often as possible, because they are free, rather than using Cure.

They actually want you to be mana inefficient.

Originally Posted by Zojha

And then make the most mana efficient heal, Regen, not contribute to the system at all...?

The most mana efficient way to heal (and often most efficient way in general) is to let Regen do the job and use your OGCD abilities as often as possible, because they are free, rather than using Cure.

They actually want you to be mana inefficient.

Now it is mana is mana inefficient, but it wasn't then. Which is my point. Instead of changing the old traits they are doubling down on them and trying to enforce their use.

Originally Posted by Feidam

In ARR initially, the cure and cure2 was to utilize the traits and maintain mana efficiency. I wonder if they are attempting to enforce that again?

At the cost of ignoring the much-more-mana efficient abilities we got after those abilities? They gave us Regen and Medica II and Tetra for a reason. It's ass-backwards to now say "But we don't want you to use any of them! Just spam Cure and Cure II!"

Their mistake with the new spells is to rely it on rng.

The fact that we have to use cure and cure ii to get confessions et lily is badly design cause, let's be honest, you don't spam cure that much on anyone else than the tank, so how to you want to put some stack of confessions on other.
For massive aoe damages, we use spells like medica, medica ii and assize (or even cure iii).

Some spells should basically grant confession stack on people aside cure.

I could probably deal with them taking a bunch of our best skills and turning them over to cross-role if they had given us anything worthwhile in return, but they didn't. The ONLY new ability that looks good is Thin Air.
Unless the single-target damage is drastically increasing in SB, the lilies and Plenary Indulgence won't see any real use because our HoTs and oGCDs take care of so much. No WHM worth their salt sits around spamming Cure/Cure II. The lilies are also counter-intuitive. Delaying a CD in order to get a CD reduction...what? The whole thing is just a hot mess.
Plus, we won't even have Stoneskin/Stoneskin II anymore.
I hope SE fixes this, because otherwise it's AST/SCH for me from here on out. I have such a soft spot for WHM, but I hate the direction they're taking it in.

When I saw the live letter and saw how we had contributed virtually everything to the 'Role System' (SCH gave us one ability and AST gave us half an MP regen ability that we lost) I was nervous but cautiously optimistic for what the new heals might be and the lilies might do. I was flat out excited that I didn't have to stance dance anymore. But now...all I can hope is that potency and proc rate is adjusted before the class goes live. I will level WHM to 70 but if the gameplay is as meh as the tooltips make it seem I won't be actively using it beyond that. I'll go play AST for the eyecandy effects and better utility.