On Healing Hands - A Comprehensive WHM Guide (v3)

Correct which is why these changes for refresh is part of the hybrid idle sets (one that balances refresh and safety for when mp is below 75%)
and daybreak + genmei is used for the general idle set.

however these sets needs to be updated since they haven't been updates with since before null gear.

I just returned to the game like 3 months ago so have some catching up to do

Can someone please post an updated whm.lua?

Mine's pretty basic but it's up-to-date with BIS: https://pastebin.com/QFDNyyY1

Keep in mind, WHM is one of those jobs that has a lot more room for personal touches than most jobs and not everyone agrees on what's optimal. (e.g. I'm extremely anti-Raetic Rod, but most on here seem to love it.) So some of your sets may look significantly different from mine, and still be perfectly ok if they cover the important stats.

Is sroda necklace the same effect as staunch tathlum +1 and Gurebu-Ogurebu's ring or is it something different?

Sroda gives +20 to bar-status spells elemental resistance. Eg +20 to ice element resistance when casted with barparalyzra and so forth.

It's bar-status specific.

It's different from the Resistance gained from gear like Staunch Tathlum.
It's basically just magic evasion, limited to that status effect. As such it's underwhelming and will never cause a 'resist!' message, only 'resist.'

https://www.bg-wiki.com/ffxi/Category:Barspell

So I've been sitting on this wonderful set I've just finally put together tonight. The only thing is you need to use merrits to cap SIRD.

ItemSet 401230

WHM Capped SIRD 73 FC and -25% Healing Magic Recast Time

sets["WHM Capped SIRD, 73FC, and -25% Heal Magic Recast Time"] = {
main="Asclepius",
sub="Culminus",
ammo="Staunch Tathlum +1",
head="Piety Cap +4",
neck="Clr. Torque +2",
ear1="Magnetic Earring",
ear2="Mendi. Earring",
body="Inyanga Jubbah +2",
hands="Chironic Gloves",
ring1="Medada's Ring",
ring2="Kishar Ring",
back="Alaunus's Cape",
waist="Embla Sash",
legs="Bunzi's Pants",
feet="Theo. Duckbills +4"
}

Casting in Inyanga Jubbah +2 over empy +3 or af +3/+4 is certainly a choice.

No one's picking up medada ring either.

its a precast set not midcast set.. my midcast set for cures is potency 75 and for curaga is potency 82 i think if i recall correctly. also I only picked this ring for this toon due to the fact I started out as whm lol went through all of tvr as whm and entered sortie as whm. it was a decent choice :)

Long as your midcast keeps the sird too, its where it actually matters anyway. PC SIRD is unlikely to get used since you're in that set for less than a second

I've got the perfect SIRD set. It's called aquaveil buff with the following equipment:

vadose rod
chironic hat
regal cuffs
emphatikos rope
shedir seraweels

That set lasts > 15 minutes (with a duration set in other slots) and can take 7 hits before it wears off. More than enough to almost never need to recast.

Edit: Even for odyssey gaol fights. Matamatas and crabs are super super slow auto attacks, so very easy to cast in between. Only problematic one there is the grasshoppers on Xevi.

Okay i guess that makes sense! hmm imma have to edit my lua to switch midcast sets somehow. potency and sird lines.

If using gs you dont really need SIRD in precast set.
unless you are spamming keys mindless AND are in a laggy area.

If using GS, you don't need SIRD at all in a precast set.

If you're not using GS, you can't use this set.

There are situation where spamming the macro in laggy zone (lik dyna D) will cause gearswap to send out so many gear change request that they cannot go out in the same "packet"
in that case you risk being in a wrong set until the next "packet" comes in and for that short amount that might be your SIRD less precast.

However this is only if you play pretty idiotic and in those very laggy areas at the same time, so really no concern

Aquaveil fam.

Beaten all WHM content including V25s and whatnot. Never had a need for SIRD in any of my sets.

That would explain why I never see any SIRD midcast spells. I took a page from my buddy and went with this set for curaga midcast.

sets.Midcast.Curaga = {--SIRD110
main="Raetic Rod +1",
sub="Culminus",--SIRD10
ammo="Staunch Tathlum +1",--SIRD11
head="Ebers cap +3",
body="Bunzi's Robe",
hands={ name="Chironic Gloves", augments={'Mag. Acc.+7','Spell interruption rate down -10%','"Mag.Atk.Bns."+14',}},--SIRD30
legs="Ebers Pant. +3",
feet="Theo. Duckbills +4",--SIRD29
neck={ name="Loricate Torque +1", augments={'Path: A',}},--SIRD5
waist="Emphatikos Rope",--SIRD12
left_ear="Glorious Earring",
right_ear="Ebers Earring +1",
left_ring="Murky Ring",--SIRD3
right_ring="Janniston Ring",
back={ name="Alaunus's Cape", augments={'MP+60','Eva.+20 /Mag. Eva.+20','Mag. Evasion+10','"Fast Cast"+10','Spell interruption rate down-10%',}},--SIRD10

the only reason I wanted to make it was for H and F boss. Even with -50 Enmity I'm pulling hate midway through the fight. So my DD's arent doing enough damage :(

Which Curaga tier are you casting, are your DDs wearing DT, are you maintaining accession regen, are you utilizing accession + cure IV for the cureskin?

main="Raetic Rod +1",
sub="Genmei Shield",
ammo="Staunch Tathlum +1",
head="Ebers Cap +3",
body="Theo. Bliaut +4",
hands="Theo. Mitts +4",
legs="Ebers Pant. +3",
feet="Theo. Duckbills +4",
neck={ name="Clr. Torque +2", augments={'Path: A',}},
waist="Emphatikos Rope",
left_ear="Glorious Earring",
right_ear="Magnetic Earring",
left_ring="Defending Ring",
right_ring="Murky Ring",
back={ name="Alaunus's Cape", augments={'MND+20','Eva.+20 /Mag. Eva.+20','Mag. Evasion+10','Enmity-10','Phys. dmg. taken-10%',}},

This is myy standard cure set
Should cap your DT and add in some SIRD to keep aquaveil lasting longer


When auqaveil is down i use chironic gloves to cap the SIRD

It's already been pointed out several times why SIRD in a cure set is bad so I won't continue to press that point but...if you wanted to have SIRD in your cure set, for...some reason...you should also consider SIRD merits, in which case you should drop (at least) 10 of the SIRD from this set, since you're over capped by 18.

Things worth adding:
Your -enmity isn't capped
Your DT isn't capped
Cure potency isn't capped, and lots of cure potency II could be added
Conserve MP could be neat, but probably overkill a lot of the time.
Weather on the obi would be nice, if talking about Sortie and not Ody.

On RDM I like having SIRD on my aquaveil set so if I'm ever really needing SIRD I can at least get aquaveil up and then get up whatever I need.

Also, regarding SIRD in WHM: really only valuable if you expect to be tanking many mobs regularly. A beefy enough Aquaveil, Stone/Cureskin, and heal timing and you can already tank well enough without it.

just posting about my recomended curesets and trying to illustrate why i like this setup




What i like about my base set is that its really flexible.
you change 2 maybe 3 items and it will cap out what you are looking for
aquveil down. Just flip hands and belt and boom you have capped SIRD and still maintaining solid stats

Weater is up. fine just swtich belt and back and boom weather optimal for cure

The same goes for solace and in low mp sitautions


the lines in yellow means they do have a conflicts like belt between SIRD and Weather. you jsut got to prioritize what is more importatn for you (I chose SIRD)

Green marked changes does not have any conflicts to think about


P.S.
You can if you want to, replace magnetic earring with glorious earring for a bit more Cure Potency2. and just swap to magnetic earring in SIRD set.

just posting about my recomended curesets and trying to illustrate why i like this setup




What i like about my base set is that its really flexible.
you change 2 maybe 3 items and it will cap out what you are looking for
aquveil down. Just flip hands and belt and boom you have capped SIRD and still maintaining solid stats

Weater is up. fine just swtich belt and back and boom weather optimal for cure

The same goes for solace and in low mp sitautions


the lines in yellow means they do have a conflicts like belt between SIRD and Weather. you jsut got to prioritize what is more importatn for you (I chose SIRD)

Green marked changes does not have any conflicts to think about


P.S.
You can if you want to, replace magnetic earring with glorious earring for a bit more Cure Potency2. and just swap to magnetic earring in SIRD set.

Comment to my low MP set above.

if you dont want to make another Ambuscade cape a set with Quealle rod + Sors Shield will be you replacement for RAetic +1 + Genmeri shiled
you wont cap DT but the staff based set didn't either.

You can also do both. keep quelle rod version for no weather situations and with chaytonatn staff set for when you have weather.

It up to you we are really triyng to min/maz subset of subsets here

Sideinfo: i switch to my low MP set when im below 50% MP at casting time

Generally, I build my WHM for durability once my baseline stats are satisfied: CP1/2 totaling 50%+, 50%DT, -50 Enmity. I go then into things like MDB and Defense all the way down while retaining my handy +MSP ring. Equalize HP across sets to minimize swing, and voila. I rarely worry about refresh pieces beyond the most obviously good ones.

This is because I am not savvy enough with gearswap to set toggles/cycles and manage them mid-game, otherwise I'd have sets for each occasion, squishy but full of refresh, hybrid for easy fights, durable for the toughies. So I just roll with something prepared to be a safety net no matter what, provided I'm getting enough MP. With the content I do, I've rarely needed things like conserve MP and + Refresh pieces optimized in, and for that content I'll adjust.

Just FYI none of the above sets i posted really needs toogles or cycles or midt game managment.

- Baseline is the default cure sets
- SIRD is being used when auqaveil is down so thats an automatic check
- Weather sets are being used when weather matches. So that's an automatic check
- Solace set changes are done, if afflatus solace buff is up so again automatic changes
-LowMP sets are used instead of baseline when mp is below 50% so again automatic

There are nothing you need to do in combat for this

Right, my gs is set up for these already as well, except I gutted the below 50% MP aspects. I was just zooted and wanted to talk more about some of the broader optimizations I wish I had the oomph to work out. :)

My bad
Cycles did me some time to figure out myself.
and im doing it in a way i know a lot of people will frown upon lol
but work and thats the important part for me

In the swaps I've inherited from others, I've always had to ask what cycles/toggles are in because the notation in the lua isn't always clear to me lol. So some of my setups, WAR for example, has a robust swap suite I make use of in combat. But my RDM I just gutted and tried to make as simple as possible 'cause I just can't figure out what the cycles are.