New WHM at 75. Gearing questions

[Xavierus]

Quick response on some things brushed over:

Weapon – Dark Staff (wasn’t mentioned above, but pretty much common sense)
Body – Cleric’s Briault (WHM AF2) for regen macros
Nashira Manteel for long casting spells with Haste +3 (lol, I know)
Hands – Cleric’s Mitts (WHM AF2) For certain enfeebling spells.
AF1+1 hands for weaponskills
Waist – Cleric’s Belt


Also, -emnity sets are very important for certain spells.

[Cutriss]

@OP

A combination of Cure Clogs and /sch make spells go off ludicrously fast. Use Penury for mp conservation, and celerity for 911 situations where you need the spell to go off NOW. Celerity also helps for cutting down on casting time for raise spells.

I rarely use Celerity. The only times I do are:

Wipe raises (for cutting the weakened recast timers)
Quick outside-PT raises while supporting my PT in tricky situations

Basically, if I see a BLM go down in Dynamis, for example, I'm usually the first one on the raise anyway, and if my PT is getting beat up, I might pop Celerity to make sure I can get back to supporting my PT promptly. Celerity only cuts 50% off the base cast time and recast, and my haste/fast cast setup brings me almost to that level on the recast timer anyway, so it's only saving me approximately 1-2 seconds.

Another WHM in my LS has macros set up to automatically use Penury on big spells if it's up. I don't know how I feel about that personally. It seems like a good idea to make sure it's always utilized, but at the same time I think I prefer to exercise that control directly.

As for -enmity, I realize its value, but do WHMs out there really have problems with this? I rarely pull hate unless I'm doing something stupid like Hasting a melee the moment he engages an unclaimed mob. I haven't actually had to *try* to get a -enmity set, it just came naturally with the Blessed and Zenith gear.

If you're using Spellcast, there's also documented Autoexec rules you can use to spit out Sublimation notifications whenever Sublimation finishes. Alternatively, you can just measure your normal Sublimation time using StatusTimer and then you'll have an idea of how soon you can pop it. I need to macro in some max-HP-up gear for that but generally my Sublimation runs about 300 MP, so it takes ~7 minutes to tick to full.

And yeah, I don't waste time with Medicine Ring either. If I'm already proc'ing latent, then great, Spellcast throws it in there, but I don't spend inordinate amounts of time doing it either. I can soak up a few hits at full HP and not lose Sublimation, and I end up over-curing a lot anyway. That said, I might work on triggering it for Cura, as every ounce of potency I can get there is worth it.

[shaddix]

I use celerity for stoneskin

[510Meeze]

ZNM is a great place for HMP+, and most of the stuff gets trashed by LSs.

As a Galka WHM, I never really go very far over 1k MP except when I'm walking around town. With an RDM and 350+ Devotions, I can always find the time to take a few ticks with my +29 HMP (need hat and HQ body to max out I think).

I went 5/5 Shell V, and Devotion, no Aegis PLDs for me.

[Sirenia]

I thought you don't need 5/5 Cure cast if you have cure clogs? Or am I missing something?

[RyaWHM]

That said, I might work on triggering [med ring] for Cura

One thing to keep in mind is, if I remember right, it does calculate for each target, starting with your casting target (so for cura, always yourself) -- so if casting it takes you back out of yellow, you're only getting the +10% on yourself -- then it's "wearing off" before others in range are hit with the spell.

The most frequent/recent evidence I have is Nyzul bosses, for the melees' Body Boost festival, where usually they're up front enough that I can target one of them for delicious ~600 curaga3 on all...

...but sometimes they have the jimmylegs, and I hafta center myself BRDwise, and self-target, which always gives me a lower curaga (~550) because I'm killing my ring on target #1 (me) before it hits the spongebobs

(I'm not sure if it's party- or distance-order but it does seem to follow the chat log, and I do really wanna say it's distance-order)

[Shinryuu]

I thought you don't need 5/5 Cure cast if you have cure clogs? Or am I missing something?

Animation is capped, actual cure casting time isn't.