Thread: White Mage's 6.1 changes fail to address a core issue I have with the job.

I did savage back during Alexander on WHM.

I guess i'm Semi-glad that Misery is More DPS Neutral. I think we are going the right way. When you figure that Sages have a way to set up which is...what boils down to a Party wide Bene...i'm feeling that WHM does need some adjustments. They're getting there. White Mage doesn't necessarily Play Nice with the other healers, but it can pull out some stuff when needed. Not going to lie? there are a lot of times i don't touch my Lilies. not because they're not useful, they are...but...I get no benefit, so i let them charge up OR i use them just to have a Misery in the wings. I've done many a Dungeon going into a boss with a misery and 3 lilies waiting.

It's..wasteful and counter intuitive and just for lack of a better word: "boring". i'm not giving up my WHM, but there's a difference between a "White Mage", "A Glare Mage" and "A Salt Mage" ...

Back when Zodiark was new, it could be solo healed. With everything Sage and SCH bring to the table, a WHM with one of them? they're a DPS bot, with a Medica 2 thrown in...or a lily bell through the bleeds in Extreme. HydEx was a bit rougher at the time, but that's because the tanks were getting wailed on and taking half their HP in DMG every GCD.

I feel that there are a lot more changes that could be made to WHM that would make it more competitive/on par with the others, but to that End, it is overall SE's choice.

AST and WHM have the same Potency for healing Spells, but AST uses less MP.

This has been a constant since the Heavensward. I'm not badmouthing any other healer, but when they're all..able to do more than the "Healer that does the Most Healing and DPS" on all fronts, that's an issue. You cannot say that this is their Identity and then not give them that Identity.

At this point? I want an emote where i throw a bouquet of flowers at someone...I feel like a glorified Florist somedays. I don't want any of the other healers to be nerfed to Emet Selch and back, but White Mage has gotten so many nerfs over the years it semi feels like their the redheaded step child of the healers.