Thread: Consolidated White Mage 4.0 Feedback Thread

Originally Posted by Hyperia

I believe its safe to say that nobody, regardless of language or play style, is or can defend these changes. With that said, they have 14 days to fix this and as much as I would like to think that they can, we are looking at a Warrior 2.0 situation again. its going to require multiple patches to fix this and by my estimates, the better portion of a year. Seeing WHMs running around in the level 70 zones is going to be as rare as seeing a Unicorn. I'll give WHM a try but I am not optimistic, not at all.

I know they wanted to fix the whole which healer is better meta thing but wow, I had no idea that they were going to essentially remove a healer from raiding outright and force AST / SCH. If things don't change, I guarantee you that when you look at a PF group, you will see that WHM is excluded from any invites.

Must skip Soar and WHM.

While its possible that changes were made since the footage was taken (its been sat on for a bit), I would not expect any changes beyond number/potency adjustments to happen before launch. Typically when game devs settle on an iteration of something, they aren't keen on making changes based on outcry before players have actually played with the changes. And even in cases of a public test server where players actually can test upcoming changes, game devs still very often roll them out anyway regardless of the feedback given. This isn't done maliciously or as a flagrant disregard for feedback but rather they prefer to see how their iteration plays in a live environment with a much bigger sample size. Once they see how their iteration is actually playing out, they determine if previous concerns mentioned in feedback warrant a closer look and possible adjustment.

I would not hold my breath on any adjustments till 4.1, or if things turn out really bad maybe sooner. I don't think WHM will hurt bad enough early on for the devs to make changes prior to 4.1 however. It's when people are at max level doing max level content, and especially static raiding, where the devs will get the metrics that show players moving away from actually playing WHM in that content. If the devs see a sizeable migration of healers away from WHM to AST/SCH, they will ask why (even though we've been telling them all through the HW meta), and look to make changes.