Wanted to throw out my thoughts towards the new white mage animations introduced in SHB. I will not make this more complex then it needs to be.

I dislike that they are moving towards everything being a big blob of light, often circular. I really liked the mixup between Aero, Stone and Holy and was hoping for some water effects to imbue our healing but instead the only skill on my bar right now that isn't some flashy blob of light is Fluid Aura.

Hopefully we'll get spell glamours much like the egi glamours for white mage that'll let us get back the stone 4 and aero II animations because I don't see myself playing a priest with 9 different flavours of Holy.

In general I feel like the SCH and WHM animations look really lacklustre to how much love the AST animations keep getting, just a bit dissapointed. Wings are pretty cool tho but also again diminished because by the time you get them, you're already filling the entire screen with white.