Hello.

Some of my fellow healer friends and I have noticed that WHM has a couple of problems going into EW. One is its MP regeneration being reduced significantly by the new Thin Air - which I'll illustrate by comparing WHM's MP regeneration to the other healers'. The other, bigger issue, which persists from ShB and only gets further exacerbated by the Thin Air change, is that WHM loses damage potency by healing with the Lily mechanic.

I'll first analyze the MP regeneration part (some math involved, unfortunately) by comparing WHM's MP regen to the other healers. This will be viewed through the lens of an optimized setting, where these issues become most apparent. I will also be ignoring Lucid Dreaming, as well as the base MP tick, as they are constant across the board.
After that, I will cover the Lily mechanic, how it ties into the MP issue as well as its own problems, then offer some possible solutions.

Boring part for nerds

WHM
1 Thin Air every 60s. It will apply to a glare - 400MP/min
Assize every 45s. 500MP each - 666.6MP/min

1 Lily stack every 30s, it also corresponds to 1/3 of a Misery. Each of these will replace 1 glare, so - 1066.6MP/min.

Total without Lilies - 1066.6MP/min
Total with Lilies - 2133.2MP/min

SCH
Aetherflow every 60s, restoring 2000MP - 2000MP/min

Total - 2000MP/min

AST
Draw every 30s, restoring 500MP - 1000MP/min
I won't go too deep into explaining how Astrodyne math works out, but overall, it restores ~1250MP/min in an optimized setting.

Total - ~2250MP/min

SGE
1 Adder's Gall every 20s, restoring 500MP - 1500MP/min
Rizomata every 90s, restoring 500MP - 333.3MP/min

Total - 1833.3MP/min

Boring part over.

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