White Mage Healer Gear and Best in Slot — Endwalker 6.55
On this page, you will find the best gear and best-in-slot items for your White Mage Healer in Final Fantasy XIV: Endwalker (Patch 6.55).
White Mage Gearsets (BiS)
This page will contain all the endgame best-in-slot (BiS) gearsets for White Mage for the current patch. Sets are made with a simulator that takes into account Mana uptime, a statistic to measure how long a job can continually cast before it runs out of Mana, in addition to averaging the DPS output of a set to compare to others. If you wish to see more about these sets, to check out additional sets, or simply desire to fiddle around with gearsets yourself to compare to what we've found, you can go to the White Mage Gear Calculator Spreadsheet.
If you are currently gearing up your White Mage, you can find more information about how certain stats and substats affect this job in our guide's melding section.
Best in Slot by Encounter
Patch 6.4 Gearsets (Week 1 Prog Sets)
Both sets below are similar damage with fast/slow GCD options depending on GCD preference. 2.38 is recommended if you are shooting for the 2.39 BiS set as it will familarize you with the GCD, but 2.43 is less taxing on MP if that is a concern. Materia VII's and VIII's can be used in place of IX's and X's in overmeld slots in the event cost is a concern.
Patch 6.55 Gearsets (Best in Slot sets)
Portions of these gear sets can only be acquired by acquiring the current raid tiers gear. A guide for the content can be found links below.
White Mage has the most flexibility of any of the healers in terms of sets; it has fairly low Mana requirements as Lily heals are free and on average equivalent to Glare in potency, and has Thin Air to alleviate the Mana costs of Raise or GCD heals such as Medica II. While Scholar and Astrologian require certain GCD's to keep their raid buffs aligned with the rest of the party, White Mage has no such restraints and can run almost any GCD comfortably. As a result, White Mage can run any of the other healer's sets without any substantial damage loss over its own "preferred" sets.
Min-Piety BiS Sets
Min-Piety sets offer the highest damage potential as they forgo all Piety in favor of damage-oriented stats. Since White Mage has little GCD constraints, the below sets all offer similar damage at a few different GCDs, and any set can be selected based purely on preferred GCD.
Slow BiS - 2.43 GCD
This is the slowest recommended Min-Piety set.
Middle BiS - 2.39 GCD
This set has the highest average damage of any set by a tiny amount.
High-Speed Set - 2.34 GCD
This set utlizes substantially more Spell Speed melds to reach even faster GCDs if preferred.
Higher-Piety Sets
Mid-Piety - 2.44 GCD
This set is a great starter set to aim for as it runs a fairly slow GCD and has plenty of extra Piety for all your GCD healing and rez needs. It is identical to the min-piety slow set above with the tome ring swapped for a raid ring. This is a good set to run if you're unsure of the quality of a party and may die, rez, or need to GCD heal without MP concerns.
The Omega Protocol Prog Set
Ultimate prog sets forgo a bit of damage for higher Vitality, Determination, and Piety than speedkill focused savage sets. The below sets are excellent options if you are planning on doing the new ultimate.
TOP Prog Sets
TOP ended up being substantially lighter on healing and heavier on damage requirements than prior ultimates, so this set aims for more damage at the expense of piety compared to prior ultimate sets, but still maintains the max vitality required for some damage checks. 2.34 GCD is chosed for alignment with various fight mechanics.
Dragonsong's Reprise Prog Sets
This ultimate is also fairly easy on your MP pool and can be comfortably progged in a fairly low piety set. If for some (terrible) reason your group has decided against using tank invulns in phase 7 the higher piety can ease the load of the extra GCD heals you'll need. Either version of the level 90 relic can be used, though this is very likely to change once the next version of the relic becomes available in patch 6.45. The dungeon gear comes from Lapis Manalis.
The Epic of Alexander (TEA) Best in Slot
- Item level 595
With that being said, the biggest difference that can be made to your gear set will be equipping an ilvl 515 or 535 Shadowbringers Relic weapon. Due to the nature of how substats are allocated on these weapons, it enables you to utilize more substats than what’s intended on a normal weapon. Stat allocation is as follows:
- 184 Critical Hit / 184 Determination / 99 Spellspeed
Spellspeed or Det can be swapped for additional piety if needed. Keep in mind, the Relic weapon is NOT mandatory to clear these fights. It only provides a buffer for mistakes. It’s up to the player to make the decision if the grind is worth it.
The Weapon's Refrain (UWU) Best in Slot
- Item level 500
With that being said, the biggest difference that can be made to your gear set will be equipping an ilvl 515 or 535 Shadowbringers Relic weapon. Due to the nature of how substats are allocated on these weapons, it enables you to utilize more substats than what’s intended on a normal weapon. Stat allocation is as follows:
- 136 Critical Hit / 136 Determination / 136 Spellspeed / 60 Piety
Keep in mind, the Relic weapon is NOT mandatory to clear these fights. It only provides a buffer for mistakes. It’s up to the player to make the decision if the grind is worth it.
The Unending Coil of Bahamut (UCoB) Best in Slot
- Item level 470
With that being said, the biggest difference that can be made to your gear set will be equipping an ilvl 515 or 535 Shadowbringers Relic weapon. Due to the nature of how substats are allocated on these weapons, it enables you to utilize more substats than what’s intended on a normal weapon. Stat allocation is as follows:
- 127 Critical Hit / 127 Determination / 127 Spellspeed / 87 Piety
Keep in mind, the Relic weapon is NOT mandatory to clear these fights. It only provides a buffer for mistakes. It’s up to the player to make the decision if the grind is worth it.
Changelog
- 29 Jan. 2024: BiS Sets updated for 6.55 relics
- 06 Oct. 2023: TOP sets updated for 6.5 dungeon gear.
- 27 Jul. 2023: DSR and TOP sets updated with 6.45 relic
- 10 Jul. 2023: Formatting updated, prog, DSR, and old ultmate gear guides addded.
- 27 May 2023: Sets updated for patch 6.4, TOP sets adjusted to current standard.
- 10 Jan. 2023: Sets updated for Patch 6.3, TOP prog sets added.
- 28 Aug. 2022: Updated for Patch 6.2.
- 20 Apr. 2022: Updated sets for 6.1 WHM changes.
- 14 Feb. 2022: Guide added.
Guides from Other Classes
Pyre is a healer theorycrafter and White Mage mentor for The Balance Discord. He joined FFXIV in late Stormblood and has mained healer throughout his career. Although not a super competetive or world first player by any means, Pyre enjoys helping players of all levels understand the nuanaces of healing in FFXIV.
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