WHM Cross job skills, any good?

[aetix]

So ive been healing for quite a while and actually had no problem at all throughout my healing, and using no additional skills. However I will be getting to titan soon and was wondering if I am missing some key elements to my WHM with a lack of additional skills in use.

Anyone have any input? or know of any site that has an updated list on the useable cross job skills that can be equipped by WHM?

thanks!

[NadienKirisame]

snip!

You will want to go into arcanist and pull out virus and eye for an eye. Those two skills are actually pretty good to have. You will also want to lvl thm and get swiftcast and quickcast.

The cat is amused =^.^=

[Vid]

This website will help you out:

http://ffxiv.consolegameswiki.com/wiki/White_Mage

But as NadienKirisame already stated, Swiftcast & Surecast from Thaumaturge are a must have for any White Mage.

[FallNSkye]

Swiftcast and Surecast are must haves for any healer.

[Fiend]

While these cross-class abilities are good to have as long as you have access to regen and avoid the AoE knockback the Titan fight is a breeze.

[Loxius]

I think the instant cast is something every whm should have, while it does give instant raise that is not the most important thing, in situations it is really handy you can cast medica2 instant or a cureIII.

[Fiosha_Maureiba]

I think Swiftcast is easily worth the cost of admission.

e.g. Being able to Swiftcast and Raise your party's other healer instead of a 10 second cast, it *should* be instant (or 1 second).

I haven't incorporated Surecast into my routine yet. I'm trying to time a Divine Seal - Medica II into landing a second after a primal's astral flow, but usually get interrupted. I suspect Surecast can help me through that.

Experimenting with Thunder vs. say Stone II.

[Elurra]

One complaint I would have about White Mage is that we have very few useful cross class skills.

Ruin - Completely useless, intended to be used with pet support so it's weaker than other attacks
Physick - Redundant, same as Cure I
Virus - Useful, I should use it more, always forget I have it
Eye for an Eye - Don't have it yet, doesn't seem that useful, 20% chance to reduce damage by 10%? meh
Thunder - I like it, although the MP cost is a little high, using Thunder - Aero - Aero II (in that order) the DoTs all line up nicely
Surecast - great skill, when it absolutely must be cast
Swiftcast - awesome skill, totally worth the investment to get thaumaturge to 26 to get it, most useful to use before Raise and Medica II

White Mage has no choice in what to take for our 5 extra skills at level 50. Ruin and Physick are completely worthless.


I think White Mage should be able to use these skills:

THM
Scathe - damage
Manaward - magic barrier
Lethargy - slow/heavy

ACN
Bio - DoT
Miasma - DoT


I don't see why these couldn't be used by WHM and would at least give us some options.

[fanservice]

Eye for an Eye - Don't have it yet, doesn't seem that useful, 20% chance to reduce damage by 10%? meh

It's a 20% chance to debuff the attacker, which drops their damage by 10% for 20 seconds. I know, the tooltip is misleading, but it's actually quite good.

THM
Scathe - damage
Manaward - magic barrier
Lethargy - slow/heavy

ACN
Bio - DoT
Miasma - DoT


I don't see why these couldn't be used by WHM and would at least give us some options.

That's an illusion of choice similar to the old talent trees from WoW: more sub-optimal options.

[Zappo]

Just out of curiosity, for those who use it, how often do you find yourself using surecast? I've got it, but I never seem to need it. The only time would be when I'm surrounded by enemies attacking me, in which case getting off one more heal usually won't make a difference. In what situations do you guys use it?