Why does White Mage feel so bland?

[MXMoondoggie]

I should not be having to DPS as a healing class. When I select healer, I want to support my team. When I select DPS, I want to kill things. I should not be forced to DPS if I do not play that role.

You should not have to do something your class is GOOD AT? That's like a Bard saying they shouldn't have to use songs. Or a MCH not using their buffs because they are both primarily a DPS. Yes WHM is a Healer it's the most pure healing class of the three but that's just how it plays. Divine Seal exists on a short CD because WHM style is to just constantly be healing and to out heal damage instead of mitigate everything. You still have stoneskin and you have E4E,virus cross class abilities. Mitigation is there no it's not party wide like SCH and AST because that's not what WHM is supposed to do.

WHM has ridiculously good AoE right now, Holy an AoE stun....IT STUNS EVERYTHING IN AN AOE ABD DAMAGES ALL TARGETS HOW IS THAT NOT GOOD? Then you have Assize with cleric stance as another big AoE attack which restores your MP also with a really generous CD time. I love being on boss fights seeing adds pop and burning everything with a big Assize crit and the DPS are like "Okay we don't need to stop attacking the boss" XD.

Aero III an AoE close range DoT with two other DoT's to add on to single targets as needed. Stone III a powerful single target attack. Stone I is still viable as a slow for certain adds. Very useful in A3 for slowing the adds down. Slowing targets is also support too. So you can stun,slow,have two skills that can restore your MP one of which is also a pretty damn good AoE, You have several DoT's and three single target attacks.

You also have several group heals , group HoT,burst heals,single target heals and HoT's,single target damage mitigation and a debuff for enemies.