How do you think the WHM Lilies work?

[Kacho_Nacho]

I am not entirely convinced that WHMs are going to be able to dps sufficiently more to make up for the lack of other utilities. Do remember AST can turn rubbish cards into a 300 pot strike. That's as hard as Assize hits and on a lower cd. The only advantage is we have one extra DoT now.

Our DoTs are constant damage whereas the AST strikes are burst. My gut is telling me (for what its worth) it'll all balance out. In the end, does it really matter that much? Just how meta is your average raider? I'd hope they would just be happy to have a healer.

But, we are getting off topic and I really don't have the experience in raiding in FFXIV to back up what I'm saying. I'm a minor league healer and I'll shut up now.

[Belhi]

Honestly I am not sure how much additional dps WHM's are going to offer above what they can sustain with their current heals. The lvl 70 skill is reliant on building Confession stacks on targets which requires casting cure on them so its a lot of build up for it to be useful. Unless there is a lot more incoming damage I don't see many of these new mechanics being particularly needed. Even building Lilies requires casting Cure and Cure 2 and in a lot of content your not going to be doing that that much since regen and Medica 2 covers most basic healing.

AST on the other hand still has its buffs but now cards it cant use can be turned into a 500 pot heal or a 300 pot attack.

Yeah, honestly I am feeling rather underwhelmed but we will see when they are finally seen in action. It will require quite a change to the gameplay for WHM's new skills to be that useful over what we already have.

[Cynfael]

The lvl 70 skill is reliant on building Confession stacks on targets which requires casting cure on them so its a lot of build up for it to be useful.

This was my thought as well. The low CD on the skill itself is nice, and it will at least have some impact for tank healing, but I question how useful it will be as an additional AoE heal when Confession stacks in the pre-launch client last only for 30 seconds and are acquired only through single-target healing.

[Gespenst]

How do they work? Poorly!