Just my sad little feelings on Whm...

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Originally Posted by Exiled_Tonberry

On the tooic of their procs being tied solely to their healing kit, I noticed something very "fun" with their new gauge in the Actions video.
It only went up when they hardcasted a heal. Didn't move with any DPS spells they casted. Which means to even take advantage of whatever the gauge gives us, we'll have to focus on direct healing which, again, makes us pretty undesirable. The goal of healing currently is to heal just enough to survive while dpsing in-between. Yet we're getting ANOTHER ability that is directly tied to healing only. This is going to be fun.

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I love WHM for being WHM, but I also recognize that this false niche of being the highest-potency pure healer is a progressively failing design since SE can't and won't let SCH and AST fall behind WHM's healing in any truly significant way.

I truly hope that whatever bag of tricks is in store for WHM somehow broadens their appeal instead of further driving home the "big heals" identity. Players only have so much HP, and if all of the healing jobs restore HP adequately, WHM desperately needs that something unique. Maybe we'll be lucky and find some important utility hidden in these new actions, or perhaps, at the very least, their new healing actions will be exceptionally efficient or otherwise desirable for important mechanics.

The thing that I've been thinking about is if by "pure healer", they are talking about taking away WHM's mitigation skills, and making SCH the numero uno mitigator, and AST truly an even balance between the two. Without these skills, it will reduce the amount of gcds WHM uses and to compensate, they will be given stronger/more healing ability. A lot of people are worried about having the room to cross abilities which were previously innate to the job: Protect, Cleric Stance, Esuna, Divine Seal, Stoneskin, etc. Perhaps WHM will really no longer really need them except situationally, but they will still be favored by the other two healers who currently already cross some of these skills.

It also makes me wonder about WHM DPS potential. I know Holy has been nerfed since its introduction, but I'm actually thinking that their DPS potential is going to go up. I mentioned in another thread, or maybe earlier this thread (so many whm threads lol) how abilities like Assize will now have full heal and damage potency, not having to worry about leaving cleric to cast Tetra makes it a mini Bene, casting Aero 2 on the move if it is now instant, addition of Stone IV and Break, and potentially reduced recast times with stacked lilies. I am not sure if others see the same potential I do, but I think WHMs will be able to spend a LOT of time DPSing because of their ridiculous healing efficiency.

All speculation of course, but I'm also not sure if making content so healing intensive that it requires a WHM to clear is the way to go. They do need to find a way though. A lot of people main WHM. It isn't fair to leave them out.

I think WHM has always been in competition with PLD for most bland job in the game.
The other two healers both have a gimmick to play with (cards, fairy). WHM doesn't have a cool unique feature. Feels like they could delete WHM at this point and nothing important would be lost.
I think if utility is less than the other healers, then personal dps should be very high to compensate. Or how about a Flood/Waterga aoe that also puts Slow on all targets, effectively causing mitigation while doing dps. And allowing whm to stoneskin II during battle, on a longer cooldown.