Anyone else feel SE missed the mark on WHM's from 50-60

[Eisenhower]

I do. Our three new healing Abilities don't seem to work with our existing healing buffs (Divine Seal I'm looking at you!)

You even put it in bold. That's exactly why Divine Seal doesn't work with them since DS improves spell-based healing. The new abilities cost no mana, take no place in terms of GCD and are all instant. It's a pretty good trade. I fail to see how this strays from the identity of what a is a white mage.

I've looked into Assize and Tetragammaton. For those that can't be bothered to do the search, assizes refers to the courts that were established in England and Wales at around the 12th century. It can also refer to judgement rendered by these courts or judges. Since the spell explodes outwards, healing allies and hurting enemies the naming seems fair to me. Tetragammaton in turn refers to the four-letter theonym of the national god of the Hebrew faith. Whether it should be sacrilegious, or rather, blasphemous to invoke the name of a god for a quick heal every now and then is another matter. Regardless of the outcome of that discussion, the naming of the spell doesn't seem to clash with the holy/ecclesiastical image that's been building around the white mage.

[deos]

You even put it in bold. That's exactly why Divine Seal doesn't work with them since DS improves spell-based healing. The new abilities cost no mana, take no place in terms of GCD and are all instant. It's a pretty good trade. I fail to see how this strays from the identity of what a is a white mage.

completely true!
but there still is one major flaw with the new WHM skills: they ignore warrior Defiance heal bonus, making warrior tanks harder to heal and giving them (and the WHM healing them) an unfair disadvantage