WHM and Holy

[AceofRains]

I kinda wiish holy's damage would be influenced by how much you've healed. But meh beggers cant be choosers.

[AmyNeudaiz]

What I like to do in the first room in Cutters Cry is run and pull all the ants and use Presence of Mind > Holy > Blissful Mind > Holy and instant kill the whole first room. Good fun lol.

[Fiosha_Maureiba]

Still climbing the ranks of White Mage meself, but Shroud works to half the cost of Holy (so it doesn't take all MP?)

Would this work if one (or more) were being offensive?

Bliss > Presence of Mind > Shroud of Saints > Holy > Holy > consume Bliss.

[Estellios]

Shroud doesn't halve the cost of Holy (or any spells for that matter), it halves your current Enmity and grants you substantial gradual MP recovery. That sequence you gave probably will work but you will need to wait for your MP to tick back up to 280 for the second Holy. Usually I just consume Blissful Mind before hitting the second holy and use Shroud of Saints after that.

[Fiosha_Maureiba]

doh! for some reason I was thinking Shroud halved MP cost. Shows how long I've been reading that tooltip haha

[Reinheart]

Totorak (sp?) boss dies instantly with Holy.... lol

[PiedPiper]

For CC speed run, in the last room with piests, (two groups piests one group doblyns) one strat that many groups use is to gather the last two pulls (doblyns and a set of piests) sleepga, /countdown to blms casting flare, once flare lands the whms then POM holy / blissfull mind / holy. The 4 holys from the two whms are what will make or break this putting out enough damage for most groups that aren't extremely well geared. While this is an EXTREMELY particular and narrow use, I none the less rather like it since it does make that room easily 30 seconds quicker which really helps on speed runs.

[Klive]

Holy scales very well with Int/M.Att. granted playing WHM you rarely have any of those stats. I have a nuking-ish gear set for WHM for moogle runs. I've got my holy to hit for over 2k with a 1/2healing 1/2nuker gear on.

I really see holy as a future PvP ability. Makes melee question rushing the WHM with holy. It is insta-cast, hurts a lot, and binds you. Prefect last ditch WHM in PvP "Oh crap!" button.

[homicidaltendancies]

I think there is more to holy than meets the eye. The only time I've ever hit 9999 damage on this game was with holy. I was popping off holy for fun on lvl 13 monkies in the shroud, around 5.5k per holy. I crit'd for 9999. The most I hit with BLM with thundaga/burst combo'd with excruciate on kobolds was i think 7~8kish. But a plain old holy just crit'ing maxes out? Hmmm.... Maybe some kind of hidden damage bonus or something. No idea.

[Sasagawa]

Cleric stance + Holy Bomb :P = Fun