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Tldr; All Healers have utility? Yes? Good.
Hmm- Any way we could convince SE to hire you?
Good chart
AST has The Cards - Buffs
SCH has Shields & Debuff+Dots/Bane
WHM Needs something to stand out... Am I Right on this? is this what ppl want from the WHM?
How about 'Blessings From The Elementals' Debuffs or Buffs - WHM uses Earth, Water & Air... Maybe Lowering Enemies Elemental Resistances 'Magic Damage Debuff' for few secs or a 'Buff that Raises your Physical Defence or Magical Defence', something using those Three elements as Basis maybe?
They're moving away from the elemental theme of WHM, that much is clear with Glare and Dia replacing Stone and Aero.
I think people need to look at potencies of things and calm down. WHM has some more instants for moving and weaving, a big nuke and the strongest potencies on its dps abilities barring 10 potency SCH is ahead on its AoE... that doesn't stun.
They aren't giving whm a direct rDPS buff but if the other healers have objectively weaker pDPS and their rDPS buffs are less impactful WHM is still capable of providing faster clear times which means better dps for the whole group.