Thema: Consolidated White Mage 4.0 Feedback Thread

I actually like this changes. I might actually care about doing AoE damage rather than just running a macro and Bishop.

I found this amusing and a welcome addition to the front page. A little bit of humor helps to defuse a bad situation, and the state of 4.0 WHM is very much so a bad situation.

Lily is a trait gained from level 52.
It's not even a part of Stormblood (60 --> 70).

It's pure bonus (like Freecure and Overcure) !
You don't want to spam cure I and II ?
Alright, it's not a problem, play as before with full HoT and sometimes Cure I & II, it's fine.
If you have proc Lily, it's good, otherwise it's a shame (as to not be able to crit on adlo, or draw cards you don't want. Rng is everywere)

But I think for the hardest content planned (level similar to Midas savage maybe), WHM will need to use more Cure and Cure II and they could shine here with all their healing skills.

And I want to remind you, we don't know if Fairy was modified (auto-embrace potency anyone ?, skills ?), we don't know if Cards were modified either.
And, we don't know if fights will require more healing.

For me, after some analysis, I suspect the best composition will be WHM / AST (noct) for Stormblood.

Zitat von Vexander

You know... I'd have been okay with this. Something I'd have actually enjoyed probably. Minus the Lilies part. Until lilies have a 100% proc rate and can proc from Regen/Medica/other healing abilities, I don't really want much to do with them.

Yes the more I read into it the less I like it just try to fit something more realistic beside pure healer we have plenty of that for job role more support attach it to sch pet reduce it cast time or ast increase duration of card effect /shrug at this point I'm making stuff up I wish had happen lol

Been playing WHM mainly since I started, incredibly disappointed by the changes. So many of the good abilities got taken and put into cross-roles, procs rely on Cures that I don't even use that much because it's better to rely on regens and oGCD heals, and to top it all off I won't see the super cool staff-spinning animation after Aero III as much because I usually follow that up with an Aero II which is instant cast now. D:

Unless they already have drastic changes in place I'll be switching my focus to another job immediately.

I don't understand this at all. You took away many of our required abilities, gave them to everyone else and made us buy them back and replaced them with nothing.

The new things you added require Cure spamming which is not something that you should be doing...

It's like you saw there was an imbalance between the healers, failed to understand the problem and then did something that didn't fix the problem that you thought existed.

This is awful. D:

The more I dig into this, the more I agree that WHM is missing something. The Lily's and Confession Stacks need one more trigger; something that isn't a Cure I or Cure II. Making it trigger on a HoT feels OP, even if you add RNG, but it doens't make sense to add it to a DPS skill either.

Perhaps Tetra has 100% chance of a Lily, and Divine Benison scales with Lily count?

How very fitting that White Mage's resource is flowers considering that will be lining its shallow, unmarked grave.

You deserved better White Mage.

Zitat von Beskar

The way people are acting in this thread it's as if the sky is falling. Rather than just speculating about what people think will happen, at least try it first. If it doesn't work, the politely offer ways to suggest it. Crying loud wont do anything at this stage and as it's been stated multiple times, numbers are not final. Playstyle might even change completely in raids, we don't know anything yet. The only people who know were those at the media event and currently the dev and QA teams.

Waiting until we try it to offer feedback offers at least two major downsides.

(1) These forums are a form of stress relief for people concerned about the direction of WHM - waiting obviously removes said form of stress relief.
(2) Waiting means the various issues are on the radar of the dev team for that much less time; just because they probably won't resolve the issues prior to Early Access, doesn't mean that early warning isn't helpful.

There are probably other good reasons for speculation at this stage, too. Regardless, it's not just a useless exercise. Everyone's aware of the fact that Raids might be designed in a way that mitigates our concerns, or that things might be changed prior to the release of Stormblood. Regardless, though, based on what we know now, there are huge problems with the WHM adjustments.

Zitat von Len

How very fitting that White Mage's resource is flowers considering that will be lining its shallow, unmarked grave.

You deserved better White Mage.

eh, they'll Fix it eventually probably by going waay to far in the other direction. I'm holding out hope that Lillies/Confession gets a little more attention before June and the incoming dmg in Stormblood is far in excess of anything we've seen before. Return of the 2.0 era 4-mans please!!