Improving Dawntrail WHM

[currentlemon]

I already posted this on the Healer strike thread and on it’s discord, but I want to make a WHM thread on the Healer sub-forum.

I think that going into DT, WHM is in a decent spot. There is actually stuff to look forward to this time, unlike in EndWalker. However, there is always room for improvement.

Healing kit is fine. Aside from having Cure I naturally upgrade to Cure II and gaining an action at the level 18-26 range.
- (NEW) The shield timer on the new Divine Caress is too short. It needs to be increased.

As for DPS, we can actually build a mini-rotation using the job’s current DPS kit.

Let’s go over them really quick:

Glare III - Fine As Is
Afflatus Misery - Fine As Is
Dia - 30sec DoT ability
Glare IV - Locked behind a 120sec ability
Holy - Only used in AoE situations.

The problematic DPS actions are Dia, Glare IV, and Holy. These three actions deserve to be used more in WHM’s DPS rotation.

Let’s make some adjustments.

- Shorten Dia’s DoT timer to 15secs. Make WHM press this button more. Potency will have to be adjusted should a change like this occur.

- Decrease Presence of Mind’s CD down from 120secs to 60secs for more Glare IV’s.

- Do not lock Glare IV behind just Presence of Mind. Let WHM use this action more. It can be done in a few ways.

* Introduce a new trait that allows each tick / second of Dia’s DoT timer to proc into Glare IV. This works similarly to BLM’s old Thunder proc ability. For this to work, Glare IV needs to be it’s own button and not locked behind PoM.

* If the above sounds too OP, have Glare IV be a GCD ability with a 20sec CD.

* Have Glare IV be usable after using other actions like Assize and Tetragrammation.

- Enhance Holy into an AoE DoT ability after Presence of Mind is used. This makes Holy, a Final Fantasy staple, usable in a single target rotation for WHM as it’s new “finisher.”

There. A mini-DPS rotation for WHM with no new DPS actions included. The only thing left to do is to have the job gain a weaker version of Glare IV at an early level.

Edit: I understand that some potency nerfs may need to be done for some DPS actions in order for these suggestions to work, but that is something that I can live with.

Feel free to post any other recommendations for WHM.

[Silver-Strider]

Give Regen/Medica a proc similar to Thunder proc that frontload's Dia's Dot

Merge Cure 1 and Cure 2, while adjusting the Freecure proc to upgrade Glare 3 into Glare 4

Give Thin Air a trait that can force these procs similar to Sharpcast

Add Protect as a Lily Ability as an AoE mitigation skill on a 60s CD

Add Divine Seal, Stoneskin and Fluid Aura as low level versions of Temperance, Divine Benison and Assize.

[Ramiee]

the only slight issue I find is that PoM is a powerful healing tool as well. Having it every 60 seconds for Glare IV basically makes it into a damage focused burst ability, seperating Glare IV and giving it like a 25 second CD and have it have 3 charges or something would probably be a better change.

[Zaytex]

the only slight issue I find is that PoM is a powerful healing tool as well. Having it every 60 seconds for Glare IV basically makes it into a damage focused burst ability, seperating Glare IV and giving it like a 25 second CD and have it have 3 charges or something would probably be a better change.

There's no world where you use PoM for healing, it's strictly a tool for DPS.

[Supersnow845]

DT WHM design sounds near perfect to me. The only thing I'd add is a chance for Dia ticks to proc a Glare 4.

As for things like Regen or Thin Air, or whatever, procing DPS abilities - ugh, a very, very hard no. Why would anyone even think of tying the healing kit to damage? There's a reason SE is removing damage from melee DPS' gap closers.

If procs from regen made regen uptime a DPS gain then you could heal and do damage with one button, I think that’s a perfectly acceptable idea in a meta that’s scared of healers having complexity because they then might not heal

[Supersnow845]

If by complexity you mean mind-numbingly putting regen on every target that doesn't need it until you run out of mana, or wasting Thin Air on DPS and not having it for rez, then sure. Whatever floats your boat

As opposed to mind numbing pressing glare for 15 minutes

If it’s a choice between completely disconnected healing and damage actions or healing proccing damage and vice versa I’m always going to pick the latter

It wouldn’t even be hard to balance this thereotical scenario, all you would just have to do is make regen+diacloud proc a slight gain over glare but only if the proc is used after say…….12 seconds of dia ticking

So it becomes semi optimal to keep regen up on one person (generally the MT) but spamming regen for diacloud procs would just be a loss as the procs would overwrite each other and you wouldn’t make up the cost of dropping a glare to cast regen

I’m not saying this is the best idea ever but it’s better than what we have now where dia is completely unconnected from the kit despite WHM meant to be mirroring BLM

[Ramiee]

There's no world where you use PoM for healing, it's strictly a tool for DPS.

In my non-parsing casual raiding group the WHM would use PoM for healing, it can be used for it and should be an option for people less confident in healing. Attaching glare iv to it just fundementally seems like a bad idea to me really gives the vibe to WHMs that if you're not using this ability in this paticular way you are throwing, its like saying you should only use dissipation for the ED dump.

[Supersnow845]

In my non-parsing casual raiding group the WHM would use PoM for healing, it can be used for it and should be an option for people less confident in healing. Attaching glare iv to it just fundementally seems like a bad idea to me really gives the vibe to WHMs that if you're not using this ability in this paticular way you are throwing, its like saying you should only use dissipation for the ED dump.

WHM’s healing design just doesn’t work with using POM as a healing tool, it has too long of a CD, it’s too useful as a damage tool and even used as a healing tool it just doesn’t provide that much benefit. It’s biggest benefit would being able to spam something like cure 3 faster but something like harrowing hell or terminal relativity is designed more as a mitigation check

Dissipation is a different beast because it actually has 3 functions (ED dump, spreadlo amplifier and emergency recovery tool in prog)

[Silver-Strider]

Why would anyone even think of tying the healing kit to damage?

THAT'S THE ENTIRE LILY SYSTEM????!!!!!!

[SargeTheSeagull]

Genuienly, DT WHM isn't super far off from what I'd like to see. What would I change?

- Dia has a 2.5 second cast time and works like thundercloud on black mage.
- After casting glare 3 three times you get one cast of glare 4
- Every three casts of glare 4 grants "enhanced holy 3" increasing the damage of holy 3 by 300%.
- (free space) Freecure reworked: Cure 1 upgrades to cure 2
- Protect added. Consumes 1 lily. Grants a 300 potency barrier to all party members.

That's all I'd do. DT WHM will probably be fairly fun. Locking G4 behind a 2 minute cooldown is sorta weird, that's all.