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.