Batcher's 99 WHM Gear Guide

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== Introductions ==
UPDATED JUNE 2020!
Hi! My name is Batcher! I play on Asura Server and you may have seen me around! I like to help people and this guide is meant to serve as a goal for career white mages who intend to master white mage and play at an optimal level while still being conscious of their gear. Tremendous credit must go to Cronagh's On Healing Hands Guide and the rest of the FFXI community. This guide, while similar, will take a different approach to gear. I want to make sure I emphasize this is not a budget-guide or a BiS guide. This is how I gear my WHM. Let's just jump into it.
Regarding Subjobs, this guide will assume you are utilizing Scholar. I understand RDM/BLM/SMN/DNC all have different viabilities and uses, but for the sake of this guide we are going on the idea that you are playing a standard support role with an arsenal to ensure MP management and cure strength.
Note: Hover over augment icon to see which augments I recommend!
== Gear Sets ==
	
=== Status Cleanse Set ===
Get a Yagrush. Any 119 content is inevitably going to be full of AoE debuffs and going 1 by 1 or relying on Divine Seal every few minutes is simply impractical. A Yagrush ensures that EVERY -NA spell and Erase is performed on all nearby targets. Every. Single. Time.
Seriously... Get a Yagrush.
The good news is that the 75 version is all you REALLY need, and every upgrade after is just icing on the cake. So get to doing Nyzul and dont forget to rank up with Naja! The other pieces are responsible for increasing the chance of the "Divine Caress" ability which makes your -na spells give a "buff" against being inflicted by the same debuff for x amount of time.
Ashitacast/Gearswap: Midcast this set into your -na and erase spells (Excluding Cursna, see the other section. Additionally, make sure you set your Precast/FastCast set to be the baseset of this set. Theres an argument to be made that it is better to stack ConserveMP over Recast/speed of cast, but I hold firm that having the ability to cast quickly in dangerous situations is the better move.		
=== Cursna Set ===
In 2016, SE Confirmed that Cursna has a 26% success rate with 500 Healing Magic Skill and subsequent points above 500 help the success rate. As such, we need to pump as much healing magic skill as possible. The only concession I am making here is using Kaykaus Mitra +1 instead of Vanya head with augments. We are talking 4 Healing Magic Skill for a piece of gear we ONLY use for this, so I think its a fair trade for inventory space.
The BiS item here is Gambanteinn with its +100 Cursna. I honestly don't see any but the most senior of white mages taking the time to build this AND yagrush, so using Gada is just fine. However, if you have reached the pinnacle of your gear, then this is the final goal for you.
Ashitacast/Gearswap: Midcast this set into your Cursna spellcast.
Set Goals
* +80 Enhancement Magic
* 65% Enhancement Duration	
=== Enhancement Set ===
White Mage has a base C+ Enhancement Magic Skill. With Scholar's Light Arts, we are able to push it to B+ and as 420, we only need +80 Enhancement Magic Skill to cap. The following set will serve as the baseset for all enhancement related sets (Regen, Bars, Boosts, etc) so don't freak out that the other sets don't include key pieces as they already exist here.
Besides hitting the cap, this set focuses on extending the length of enhancement buffs. 5min Hastes, 50min prot/shell, 5min regens are no joke. We also sprinkle some conserveMP in here as a lot of these buffs sometimes get executed alongside Accession.
Ashitacast/Gearswap: Within Ashitacast/GearSwap, make this set be the baseset for the spell-specific sets below, otherwise midcast this set for all your other enhancing magic. The notable exception here is Haste, as it does not benefit from potency as such you are better off midcasting it with your precast/recast set to ensure you can cast it as soon as possible.
				
=== Spell-Specific Enhancement Set ===
Ashitacast/Gearswap: Midcast these sets for the specific spells. Make special note that only bar elemental spells like barwatera and barfira are affected by the bar set, for things like barparalyzra, just use the base enhancement set.
	
=== Enfeebling Set ===
Again, most guides will indicate you have a Divine Set, a MND set, and an INT set. You are welcome to do this but since I created this build, I have not found a need. This set focuses on getting as much enfeebling skill, magic acc, and MND/INT as possible. 
Ashitacast/Gearswap: Midcast this set into your enfeebling and divine spells with the exception of repose and flash. For those, you should midcast your fastcast set.
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