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

Originally Posted by ty_taurus

I have some thoughts on addressing the overhealing issue as well as the downtime issue. What if we did something along the lines of this:

- Afflatus Propagation: 60 Potency offensive GCD spell with a radius of 6 yalms that applies Dia to all targets. 60 Second cooldown. Consumes 1 Lily & Nourishes the Blood Lily. Has 2 Charges
- Afflatus Purgation: 465 Potency Line AoE offensive GCD spell that deals 50% less damage to targets after the first. 120 Second cooldown. Consumes 1 Lily & Nourishes the Blood Lily.
- Efflorescence: OGCD Buff that generates 1 Lily and causes your next GCD heal to apply Regen to any/all allies. The Regen potency would be halved on AoE heals. 90 Second cooldown.
- Germinate: GCD Spell that Nourishes the Blood Lily. Does not consume a Lily. Has a 3 second recast time, delaying the GCD slightly.

Afflatus Propagation does not stack with Dia as it applies Dia, therefore it can be used instead of Dia when you want to consume a Lily or can be used for AoE Dia.

Afflatus Purgation acts as an enhancement to burst damage during buff windows since you also nourish a blood lily from it.

Efflorescence gives you a way to ensure you have lilies when you need them for healing.

Germinate is a DPS loss, but can be used to get your Misery ready during downtime.

Thoughts on something like that?

Germinate is neat idea to solve the downtime issue, its basically blm's umbral soul however I think that could (because all of this would depend on the battle design) create problems in some fights because once you reach 9s of downtime every lily used to heal is basically wasted, this could lead to Whms not wanting to not use them if the phase has less time left than the time they need to get another misery ready and fire it, not the biggest of deals tho

The aditional charge of Purgation I feel it would be unnecesary, its tied to Dia after all so I don't see much benefit on delaying it further than the time you would want it to be reapplied

Glad to see purgation around, would like it if also buff the healing or something like the pvp counterpart but for that to be meaningful and not "assize 2" the action would need charges

Efflorescence imo could use a lowering in cd instead of the Recitation cd as Propagation and Purgation would eat half of the lilies every minute

But yeah I think that would work, increase the damage options for whm when its not using afflatus heals and the job would be in a much better shape