Thread: 5.0 White Mage changes

Originally Posted by Maka8295

My first big problem is the wings, I just can't stand how tacky they look, they won't look good with anything that isn't a white wedding dress and not everyone wants to look like that... what happened to the more utilitarian aesthetic of the old artifact armor? Its just dresses and frills now... My problem is that these wings only play to that one aesthetic.

I love WHM, I always have...

But seriously are we being sponsored by the Sanctum of the Twelve? Bride Mage?

Like you, I also hate the tacky wings.
We should have something more like Kuribu wings imho, since they are not only already modelled, but are at least somewhat in the WHM lore.

I kinda like the wings personally. I'll be gutted if they remove our offensive spells though, we are already very much pure heal, don't take away our little unique dps. I understand that they cannot just keep adding more and more spells though, not enough hot bar space hehe.

As usual, I seem to be late to the party. Would someone please direct me to where I can see my new wings?

That's assuming white mages get wings even if they are still in earlier content. Would you believe I'm still on the beginning quests in Stormblood?

Stoopid health. *sigh*

Originally Posted by Zeromon

The wings could look better I'll be honest. Seems like it will work with certain glamours and ruin the look of most things. I wish there was a way to change the color of the wings, but I know the possibility of that is as likely as a real damage rotation for healers.

Anyway White Mages seems to have completely shaken off the Conjuror aesthetic and gone full Holy Mage (Holy as in the adj. not the spell), which is fine and fitting I suppose. Its still very visible so I have no qualms about it. But looking at the other healing spells shown is it just me or does every spell blend together? Like everything is just a mess of white light. Its not bad per se, but then I see what AST has going on and I can't help being really bothered.

I agree that the spells all kind of blend together. SE is kind of in a bind since Holy/Light magic is usually presented through certain "religious themes..." (hence the Angel Wings) but they can't go showing Christian crosses and other religious symbols so it's just more large messes of White lights. Though they're leaning more heavily on Flowers now in lieu of this.

You could interpret it as, Holy/Light magic is so volatile and powerful it's hard to give it defined structures (The more structure you give it though, the more effort it takes and the more potent it is, like Holy) and using it is more of a stressful, violent channeling of its power than a simple spell conjuration...

(Kinda sounds more badass like this honestly. Like even though your face is calm while casting Holy, inside you're biting your tongue and violently channeling and packaging Light magic into the Holy spell).