Thread: 6.1 Patch Notes

At the end of the day, WHM's still going to bleed mana, still likely going to be solid last in damage contribution, and you're still going to spend 90% of an instance going glareglareglareglareglare.

Potency neutral Misery is something I'd almost call "good", and then I remember that I hate the overhealing-encouraging lily system's backward class design and I can't bring myself to excitement.

Also LOL at Dia being a downgrade to Aero 2 now. There's always something hilarious in there.

they should give the lilly heals the the Ast card treatment
where you get a little MP back using them

Originally Posted by Rein_eon_Osborne

Wait. Ain't these an oversight?

That HAS to be an oversight, right?........RIGHT? Maybe they will hotfix it....."Here is an upgrade but it will cost ya".

Originally Posted by LuciaMirain

That HAS to be an oversight, right?........RIGHT? Maybe they will hotfix it....."Here is an upgrade but it will cost ya".

Its not even an upgrade if its the same, just costing more mp…

Thats… a downgrade if i have ever seen one lmao

Originally Posted by Cheremia

Its not even an upgrade if its the same, just costing more mp…

Thats… a downgrade if i have ever seen one lmao

This will be a buff if you stop playing doing content past 70 on WHM, which seems appropriate since then you can switch to SGE and start leveling the superior selfish healer.

I also see they added even more healing to the tanks. Yippee. I just imagined the new Expert dungeon blowing lilies between pulls to build up a free Misery while spending the rest of the time holyholyholyholy and boss room glareglareglareglareglazzzzzzzzz

Oh wait I confused a premonition with a memory: I did that when I healed an expert dungeon last expansion. More time to play my DPS classes then!

I'm overall pretty happy with the WHM changes, they're a good start.

Lower MP costs at lower levels help WHM a bit before they get access to Solace although I don't understand why they didn't include Cure II in the MP cost reduction because that was the biggest issue at low levels. Cure II spam isn't sustainable, it needs to have lower MP costs. Cheaper dps definitely helps in 70 Ultimates though because you don't have a dps neutral Misery there.

The 20s Lilies and dps neutral Misery change is huge. Not only is Misery now a dps gain when used under buffs/ pot, it also saves up to 1,6k MP per minute which should be enough to solve most of WHMs MP problems. It also allows for dps neutral Swift + TA double weave for a ress, another problem the TA change brought with it.
And WHM is finally encouraged to heal, not discouraged. Dps neutral (and positive under buffs) healing was long overdue, I'm glad they listened to the feedback and made Misery dps neutral.

Lilybell detonation was also necessary but I wish they'd just lower the cooldown. It's a strong skill but the long cooldown makes it so incredibly inflexible.

SGE Addersting stacks is a nice change for fights that don't have an early aoe and makes it much easier to coordinate in a SGE/ SCH comp. Now SCH can just their stronger prepull shields and SGE still has full stacks. I doubt they really factored in SGE/ SCH comps but it's a nice change nonetheless.

But the Expedient nerf annoys me.
It's just a Sprint, come on. Unlike Macrocosmos you can't delete a mechanic with it. It makes movement easier (or you yeet people into the death wall with a surprise sprint) and it's nice in dungeons but the 20s infight sprint wasn't op enough to warrant a nerf.

Overall a good start, especially for WHM. And now more deeps buttons please!
You know we're pushing them or you wouldn't have reduced MP costs or made Misery dps neutral.

Originally Posted by Risvertasashi

You'll want to use lilies even if it means overhealing. Misery now aligns with raid buff windows, which overall will make it DPS positive, not neutral.

I've quit healing (except for BLU) but I'll defer to your judgement here since I couldn't care less about parse numbers, but I do always try to avoid overhealing. My focus is on how fun jobs are when executing the rotation which leads me to an observation

Misery will now be once every 63s (60s to get the lillies and then 1 gcd to pop the last lily before using it) which is an improvement on 93s in terms of rotation boredom. Not much of a bar but hey my councilor said i should start looking at small good things more and thats something