On Healing Hands - A Comprehensive WHM Guide (V2)

For the record, the only form of OAX that works on WS is mythic AM3. So Tamaxchi's OAT isn't going to be enhancing WS at all.

This isn't a true representation of how Delay works in this game, once the base delay of your weapon is low enough, you are no longer loosing TP for equipping more dual wield/Martial Arts, I think it's around 150/140 delay is the low end (300 on dual wield) this was a big thing back in the day for Thief's using a certain set of daggers. While your post was number accurate, it's meaning wasn't obviously apparent for anyone who reads this later, and doesn't check on another class because they took the information as gospel.

But it's irrelevant I guess, WHM can't attain those kind of numbers in delay (yet).

Simple maths however explains her issue with why Dual Wield with an OAT weapon is providing a negative impact, her OAT weapon being in her main hand means any OAT proc in that hand gains say 300 TP a hit, when dual wielding this could potentially drop to say ~ 150, instead of getting 900 TP from an OAT proc, she gets 45 plus the offhand hit of 150, totaling 600.

Once I have 900 TP I only need 1 melee attack to get 1050 TP, with Dual Wield, there is potential I would need 2 more attack rounds assuming no further OAT Proc.

Also the Inherent gain from Dual Wield in Weaponskills is the additional hit it provides which buffs low hitting weaponskills (Slightly), an OAT Weapon on certain weaponskills would hit the Number of hits per weaponskill cap rather easily, meaning this additional damage from dual wielding is completely lost.

These things can massively skewer how the potential parser results.

Now, factoring another aspect if we assume the WHM is meleeing using a shield, with a good block rating, the damage taken from a shield instead of dual wielding (as parry is main hand exclusive) could in it self be the potential to make the shield the better choice when using a Double attack heavy Build and an OAT weapon.

But the spreadsheets don't factor in damage taken + damage reduction affecting real time damage as it assumes some external healing source.

Most of this doesn't make sense...

The TP per hit reduction of DW don't be anywhere near 100%, you actually get more TP over time due to the lower delay having a more favorable TP gain rate. Your also getting more TP back from WS's because your off hand gets a full hit's worth of TP return while additional hits from main hand only get 1.0, this typically cuts one or more attack rounds off your trip to 1000.

What decade are you getting your information from? The 5.0 TP floor was removed a long *** time ago and it only effected certain THF, NIN and MNK builds. With capped gear + magic haste you still need 36 dual wield before you experience negative DPS.

White mage sets are updated.

If anyone are a melee whm and have some sets to share. Please do so and I will add them to the main page. I am no melee whm QQ

Gada is top for enfeebling as well, far as I know. Also one of the two enfeeb sets has Luminary Sash but the other still has Rumination. Also Chironic Doublet might be able to beat Vanya Robe for that set, you'd need an amazing roll though. Probably not worth the effort, but that's the problem with these guides, where do you draw the line between practical and ideal?

Leviathan Ring +1 is pretty much supreme too even when potency isn't a factor. When you aren't over the dMND threshold, Levi+1 gives MAcc+12 total. When you are it goes down to 7.5 which is still only 0.5 behind Sangoma and is actually ahead of Perception. So get rid of Perception for sure, and is 0.5 MAcc on enemies with low MND values really worth 1 inventory slot for Sangoma?

And then there's the cure builds... I'm not even gonna touch it there are so many opinions on this right now. Mine doesn't really resemble any of the posted ones. I do think the section needs to more strongly encourage /SCH and Aurorastorm though. Unfortunately I've found it's very hard to make a good Chatoyant+Obi+Twilight build without at least 10% potency from gifts.

Gada is top for enfeebling as well, far as I know. Also one of the two enfeeb sets has Luminary Sash but the other still has Rumination. Also Chironic Doublet might be able to beat Vanya Robe for that set, you'd need an amazing roll though. Probably not worth the effort, but that's the problem with these guides, where do you draw the line between practical and ideal?

Leviathan Ring +1 is pretty much supreme too even when potency isn't a factor. When you aren't over the dMND threshold, Levi+1 gives MAcc+12 total. When you are it goes down to 7.5 which is still only 0.5 behind Sangoma and is actually ahead of Perception. So get rid of Perception for sure, and is 0.5 MAcc on enemies with low MND values really worth 1 inventory slot for Sangoma?

And then there's the cure builds... I'm not even gonna touch it there are so many opinions on this right now. Mine doesn't really resemble any of the posted ones. I do think the section needs to more strongly encourage /SCH and Aurorastorm though. Unfortunately I've found it's very hard to make a good Chatoyant+Obi+Twilight build without at least 10% potency from gifts.

You bring up a great point which is that WHM gear is very subjective. They could add a Refresh+10 body and everyone would say it's a must-have for WHM, but it wouldn't actually change anything for us unless we hit a point where decent WHMs are running out of MP again.

Then again, as the last line of defense, you can never have "too much" safety margin. So aim for the moon! Though I still stand by my assertion that anyone with a Janniston Ring is just a show-off relinquishing their claim to a ring that would actually help them.

Doyen Pants should be added to Stoneskin section. Chironic Hat to the Aquaveil section. Gada for enhancing magic. Divinity... Ababinili +1? Serenity... Marin staff +1.... Um... Befouled Crown.... so many other things. ><

Quick cast caps at 10%, apparently.

It was a jp player testing it. Sample size was a few hundred casts, sitting well above 10%, but only proc'ed 10% of the time.

I went with Janniston, because duh, and cureskin.

Gada is top for enfeebling as well, far as I know. Also one of the two enfeeb sets has Luminary Sash but the other still has Rumination. Also Chironic Doublet might be able to beat Vanya Robe for that set, you'd need an amazing roll though. Probably not worth the effort, but that's the problem with these guides, where do you draw the line between practical and ideal?

Leviathan Ring +1 is pretty much supreme too even when potency isn't a factor. When you aren't over the dMND threshold, Levi+1 gives MAcc+12 total. When you are it goes down to 7.5 which is still only 0.5 behind Sangoma and is actually ahead of Perception. So get rid of Perception for sure, and is 0.5 MAcc on enemies with low MND values really worth 1 inventory slot for Sangoma?

And then there's the cure builds... I'm not even gonna touch it there are so many opinions on this right now. Mine doesn't really resemble any of the posted ones. I do think the section needs to more strongly encourage /SCH and Aurorastorm though. Unfortunately I've found it's very hard to make a good Chatoyant+Obi+Twilight build without at least 10% potency from gifts.

All you really need to care about is capped cure potency, capped cure power and capped -enm, and a chantoyant build for your cure set. More than enough gear available to reach all that 20 different ways. Unless you over-cure, cures become essentially free and all 119 gear comes with a moderate amount of haste already. Whatever cure potency2 you can add on top of that is just cherry on top.

And there is no cap to enfeebling skill. You're thinking of enhancing skill

Does the total 23% cure potency from gift count towards the 50% cure potency cap? If yes, ther would be a lot of choices of equipment to utilize different sets.

I may or may not hit a brick wall but from what I understood. The cure potency gifts are more like base power and do not count towards the 50%.

But I wouldn't swear and put my hand in the fire for this. Conagh probably more adequate to answer that question.