Starting back after 4 years, any useful tips for whm?Follow

So i haven't played since 2006, Finally decided to give it another go. can anyone help with whm stuffs. like macros, tips, no-no's and pet-peaves?

Level Scholar, and then sub it.

That's interesting, I hadn't heard about SCH being good as a subjob. I mainly play RDM but have recently been leveling WHM again, currently 42. I'll have to unlock SCH and use it for sub if its as awesome as it seems.

/SCH is the ideal subjob starting at WHM20.

As has been stated before, get SCH leveled to 37 asap.

At 20 you get Light arts (-10% cost to all cures), and access to an ability called Penury. Penury reduces the cost of your next white magic spell by 50% (doesn't stack with light arts) an is re-usuable in a short ammount of time. At 20-59 its reuseable every 4 min, or about twice per divine seal recast, but at 60+ its available every 2 min, which creates a significant gain in MP over time. At 60+ if you don't use a strategem for 4 min, you don't lose the recast of the second Penury that would have been available... in other words you get a charge every 2 min to a maximum of 2 charges, which can be used back to back if neccessary. Ie. Penury---> Cure IV, Penury----> Curaga III with little to no delay.

Alone, Penury puts /sch on par with /blm or /smn. Include Light art's mp cost reduction and the ability to aspir/drain/dispel with use of Dark Arts then swapping back to Light Arts makes /sch HANDS DOWN the best possible sub for WHM in almost every situation.

For you might not know what is the effect of Light Arts/Dark Arts.

-10% mp cost/casting time/recasting time, Light for White, Dark for Black
-Raise all corresponding magic skill to the level of B as if it is your main job.
-available to use stratagem like Penury.
-last for 2hrs or zoning. with recast of 1min only.

So you would have 256246 dark skill when you WHM75/SCH10+ in dark art, while you will only get 114 as WHM70/BLM37.
In this reason, your Aspir would be much more effective, esp in Dynamis.

/SCH also provide an ability called Sublimation, a convert-alike refresh.

Edited, Feb 2nd 2010 6:34pm by timmyofalex

Use regens more than cures because they're more efficient and let you rest in between hastes. Use /sch and never look back. Use afflataus solace for the few times you have to cure, and use afflautas misery for sacrifice/esuna combo. Learn how to switch between them as needed. For mobs with aoe status afflictions, Afflatus Solace -> Sacrifice -> Afflatus Misery -> Esuna. Boom, everyone's back to positive status again.

Also make sure you make use of Repose, WHM's super-accurate sleep, and ALWAYS make use of flash. If you do your job with regens, you'll have so little enmity that the small spike you get from flash is meaningless.

Don't be afraid to throw paralyze/dia/slow on every mob if there's no red mage until you start to move into ToAU, then just dia every mob and don't bother erasing reflected Dia's. Use stoneskin if Dia hits you so you can rest a few ticks. Drain/aspir from scholar sub is great unless your mob is an imp. Learn to time aspir's so they go off just before the bird dies so you don't get it reflected, or keep blink up to absorb it.

WHM is a really fun job and has a ton of stuff to do. People who bitch and moan about how boring it is are usually sh*tty white mages who spam cure, and slow the party down by not resting for MP during battles, buffing with haste, and debuffing with Dia. These whitemages are crap and really piss me off when I'm on another job and I'm in a group with one. If you do your stuff, you'll never run out of mp during any exp group. If you ever run out of mp, you're probably doing something wrong.

Edited, Feb 8th 2010 2:44am by KarusTheGreat

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If you're hasting melees you can throw slow on birds safely, because it will have no effect when reflected.

And you should be hasting melees.