I'm actually not a big fan of this. It's a lot of juggling timers and setting up burst windows, and I just don't think that fits WHM. It also kind of obsoletes Glare and Stone; why would I cast them when I could instead Cure -> Cure -> Misery over and over? Between Thin Air and lilies I can do that pretty often, and the MP that all those free casts afford me makes the cost of Cure 2 a lot easier to justify when everything is down. Also, as much as I don't like current Plenary Indulgence, making it a single 200 potency shield isn't better.
That said,
If this rework went live I'd actually miss Cure, since the lower MP cost would be genuinely useful for the purposes of throwing Glare into the trash, thanks NuMisery.
That's not a DPS increase over just healing with oGCDs and casting Glare over and over. But it does mean Glare is now irrelevant for most of a fight.That would be a too much DPS increase.
Summoner has all of its base mechanics unlocked at 22, all it's missing at that point is potency upgrades, the Bahamut-shaped DoT, defensive buttons and extra damage buttons, like Ruin 4 and Astral Flow. If we're talking strictly healers... yeah, kinda. Sage and Scholar don't get their healing resource until 45, but Astrologian gets Draw at 30, and has had Essential Dignity since freaking Sastasha. Mind you, Misery at 30 is incredibly silly, that'd be like having Divination and Astrodyne at 30, and I agree that it should be moved up to Heavensward, at 52, if not straight-up to 50. But the lillies at 30 is completely reasonable.Any jobs have full job kit unlocked at lvl 30
Yes. Astrologian has Essential Dignity again, in SASTASHA. In fact, all the healers have at least one non-GCD heal by the first dungeon, with Scholar and Sage's not even requiring you to press the button more than once. The fairy and Kardia, in case you're wondering. As per buttons specifically, they both get Whispering Dawn and Physis at 20, and SGE gets Eukrasian Diagnosis, which is straight up an instant cast, spammable GCD heal. If they get free hands-off healing and super strong healing buttons by 30, I don't see why White Mage can't have something that's not even any stronger than Cure 2, and that one of the others also gets. Instant cast is not that much of an advantage.Any healers haveinsta cast healing spells at lvl 30.
In fairness, with the 33% reduction in Assize's cooldown, White Mage would be getting a lot more MP through that, though I'm not too sure it's enough. But I do agree, making Thin Air only work on heals is a bad move.You don't think WHM has already a lot of MP issue? That would be worse, since we have to use Thin Air on CD on Glare.


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