Thread: WHM 5.0 First Impressions

So did we ever figure out why Afflatus Misery, which needs a Bloody Lily to work, comes two levels before Afflatus Solace and Afflatus Rapture, which are needed to get a Blood Lily?

Solace is level 52 for me. I actually forgot to hotkey it until 74 amusingly.

Originally Posted by Sebazy

Solace is level 52 for me. I actually forgot to hotkey it until 74 amusingly.

yeah me too, it didn't auto-show up on my bar so I missed it

d'oh

My 2c on the matter

Skills:

Solace- It's... meh. It's really nice for a heal on the move, but other than that it feels really jarring to use. I like to have a spell cooking and this just gives me dead space after use. The same kind of goes for Misery.
Rapture- I actually like rapture and it's usually my go to for burning lilies for blood lily if I'm sitting on too many and I want to get a misery out for whatever reason.
Misery - About once every 3 packs or so... for kind of meh damage all things considering. I mean, the big number crits look really nice and it does wean the pack of mobs a little faster but.... ehhhhh? It's all right, but it's not great.
Temperance- While it's useful and I do use it. It's still insulting to be handed a skill at level 80 that comprises of skills that were taken away from us. It's even more insulting when NPC conjurers continue to cast stoneskin and Benison is... still worse imo.
Plenary is garbage now and I barely even touch it anymore. Old version was better =/

Soloing / Solo duties-
About as much fun as watching paint dry. I get a lily or two per kill and I see other jobs just shredding mobs down. I mean... it literally takes me like twice to three times as long to kill something as a DPS does. Is that reasonable? Sure, but it doesn't make for engaging gameplay when you have to spam the same spell 10-12+ times to kill a normal mob. The duties take a long time with all the waves and as a healer it's just.... UGH. I can only imagine the pain SCH and ASTs feel in these duties and.... I dunno tanks had some AoE upgrades so maybe its not so bad for them anymore?

Overall, the fights and dungeons are fun, but the healing aspect hasn't changed, the damage hasn't changed, and it's remained more or less the same for all the expansions so far which makes the job itself feel bland... and to me that seems wrong when so many other jobs have had major changes and facelifts-- MCH for example (though I will not claim that they are fixed/awesome/etc.). No more throwing stones, but throwing little white balls over and over and over again... For not having a new healer job and supposedly getting a balance change-- one which should have been dedicated to healers because tanks are supposedly balanced now. It does not feel like they came through for WHM and especially not for any other healer.

Originally Posted by TaleraRistain

We aren't supposed to melt things down as fast as a dps does. A dps has to finish the fight as quickly as possible because they can't keep themselves alive in longer fights. We can, and the trade off there is that we don't hit as hard.

Which is why literally in the next sentence I said that it made sense for it to be that way. But whereas they have many skills to utilize, I have 1 that I need to cast 10-12 times to kill the mob. That's not exactly engaging gameplay.