FFXIV White Mage Guide (2024)

The white mage healing gauge is how you build up to your most powerful heals or your biggest damage attacks. Your aim is to grow the Lilies and then use them for powerful heals, every time you use 3 heals you will blossom a “blood lily” which can be used for huge AOE damage.

Gaining Lilies:Every20 secondsin combat 1 lily will appear on the healing gauge up to a total of 3.

Consuming Lilies:Lilies can be consumed to either single target heal with “Afflatus Solace” (800 potency) or group heal with “Afflatus Rapture” (400 potency).

Blood Lily:For every 3 normal lilies consumed through either affaltus solace or rapture. You will create a “blood Lily“. This allows you to use the white mage’s most powerful attack “Afflatus Misery”. This deals huge damage to the enemy you target and 50% damage to all enemies around them.

White Mage’s have a whole range of powerful spells and abilities at their disposal. So Lets breakdown some of the ones you really need to know! And some tips on how to better understand and uses these.

This isn’t a complete exhaustive list, but this FFXIV White Mage Guide will try to cover all the essential ones you need to know and learn to really perform as a powerful pure healer. Normal spells coloured inyellow, with lily spells inblue

Check out theOfficial FFXIV Spell Listfor more information on each individual spell

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.

Weavingis a very important part of any class. Basically weaving other abilities between your GCDs, for example. Consider castingdivine benison, tetragrammaton, benediction and aquaveilinbetween 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. CastGlare(start casting this before pull)

2. CastDia(DoT)

3. CastGlare

4. CastAssizefor both damage and healing.

5. CastGlare

6. CastPresence of Mind

7. CastGlare

See here the main thing is to cast glare, and keep your dot up.

Cast Assize, Presence of mindon 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 Dreamingshould be used on cooldown to regain mana once it starts dropping below 80%.

Liliesshould 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 castingdia/glaredoesn’t work. Focus instead on spammingholyfor multiple targets, withassizeandafflatus miseryfor extra damage.

This is everything you should need to start healing endgame content as a White Mage, but considerThe Balancefor more in depth min/max information

White Mage Stat Priority is as follows:

Magic Damage > Mind > Piety > Crit > Direct Hit > Determination > Spell Speed.

Take this into consideration when looking for new gear and Materia. White Mage does find itselfout of manaquite easily, especially in long fights. So consider melding a little of this for progression raids. Where as unlike some healers like Astro, spell speed is not so important as we benefit more from chunkier stats like mind/crit/direct hit.

Hope this FFXIV White Mage Guide has helped explain some of the basics and set up some of the more advanced things to start working on. Healing in FFXIV is a journey where there is always things to improve on, but hopefully this helps set up even the newest of White Mages on their healing journey!