In this FFXIV White Mage Guide we’ll go over everything you need to know to play one of the most powerful healers in FFXIV. White Mage is your typical Final Fantasy healer, using iconic healing spells such as cure and regen. It keeps things simple, with slow powerful heals. The FFXIV White Mage uses holy magic to heal their party, while generating “lilies” which they can use later for extra healing or huge damage.
White mage is what we call a “pure healer” in that it focuses on large powerful heals rather than shields. to keep it simple, white mage heals when players are hurt rather than preventing them from being hurt in the first place. Read more about pure/shield healers and other healing terms in our beginner healing guideDespite its simplicity the white mage has some of the best healing in FFXIV. And with this FFXIV White Mage Guide hopefully you can learn to spread your angel wings and master this powerful healer
Here are the main tips for White Mage in FFXIV:
ABC (Always Be Casting): You want to be constantly dealing damage, while using certain spells on cooldown. Essentially there is never a time that you should be stood still.
Weaving is a very important part of any class. Basically weaving other abilities between your GCDs, for example. Consider casting divine benison, tetragrammaton, benediction and aquaveil inbetween your 2.5 second cooldown. To get out as much healing as possible
Use off Cooldown or Hold? A big question for healers is whether to use something as soon as its available or saving it for big damage moments. As a white mage you do have the powerful heals to get through, which some healers may not. So I’d suggesting only holding back a small amount of “big cooldowns”. Consider saving “Benediction” for an emergency heal and try not to leave yourself with no lilies. This all holds up until specific savage/ultimate fights where things arn’t so simple and are fight specific.
White Mage Opener and single target rotation:
1. Cast Glare (start casting this before pull)
2. Cast Dia (DoT)
3. Cast Glare
4. Cast Assize for both damage and healing.
5. Cast Glare
6. Cast Presence of Mind
7. Cast Glare
See here the main thing is to cast glare, and keep your dot up.
Cast Assize, Presence of mind on cooldown. Keep regen up on the tank and consider spending mitigation spells when needed. Its up to you how often you want to cast things like liturgy of the bell, asylum etc. Confident healers can use these on cooldown, newest white mages, might want to keep more back for panic moments.
Lucid Dreaming should be used on cooldown to regain mana once it starts dropping below 80%.
Lilies should be used as much as you feel comfortable. Using three lily spells and afflatus misery is exactly the same damage as spamming glare 4 times. So don’t feel obligated to use lilies when you don’t need too.
For multiple targets casting dia/glare doesn’t work. Focus instead on spamming holy for multiple targets, with assize and afflatus misery for extra damage.
This is everything you should need to start healing endgame content as a White Mage, but consider The Balance for more in depth min/max information