A few ideas to improve the WHM from a SCH player

[Viviza]

I like that ideas are being raised here, but I'm mildly against the overall theme of making everything easier. Free spells, more spells off the GCD, and better mp management all serve to reduce the thought that goes into using a given spell or not.

For example, putting regen off the GCD. Right now I often have to choose between (pre)casting cure or setting up a regen. If I put down a regen, that's a window of ~4.5 seconds before I can land a direct heal. Sometimes the tank gets smashed in those seconds and I really wish I had readied a cure 1 or cure 2 instead. But that's the decision I opted to make. Also... regen is cheap, but not free, and it's easy to waste mp putting it on people that don't need it.

If too many classes can manage their tp/mp too well, support spells become less useful, and costly spells become trivial. It sounds nice but it degenerates the whole teamwork aspect. If anything I would argue that WHM are in a good place and SCH/SMN are perhaps too well off.

[Avette]

I'm mildly against the overall theme of making everything easier. Free spells, more spells off the GCD, and better mp management all serve to reduce the thought that goes into using a given spell or not.

I would argue that this problem of opportunity costs is a liability to the raid.

For example, putting regen off the GCD[...] Also... regen is cheap, but not free, and it's easy to waste mp putting it on people that don't need it.

Which is why I think Regen needs to be reworked, since it appears to me to be less viable than it should be.

If too many classes can manage their tp/mp too well, support spells become less useful, and costly spells become trivial[...] If anything I would argue that WHM are in a good place and SCH/SMN are perhaps too well off.

It's often WHM soaking up Mage's Ballad while the TP classes roll their eyes because they won't be getting Army's Paean.