What makes WHM special? Nothing anymore.

[Kosmos992k]

So you want all three healing classes to be WHMs? Let's take ranged attacks away from BRD and MCH while we're at it, and seriously, why should some classes use magic attacks while others use physical damage? Get rid of THAT crap...

How, exactly, did you glean that from my post? Perhaps I should put sarcasm tags around things in future for the hard of understanding. Far from wanting homogenization I want WHM to have some of it's individuality returned, or perhaps you should just re-read my post(s) understanding that I do not wish to have a single healer job/class, and simply want WHM to have it's own identity just as AST and SCH do. That was rather the point I was making since the poster I was replying to was the one talking about healers as nothing more than a way to make the blue bars go up - hence my sarcasm in response to him.

Oh, and please let's not have anyone else respond to me saying how powerful WHM is as a burst healer, that is not an identity. I mean really? AST says, I'm an Astrolgian, see my disco ball and Deck O'Wonder, how they sparkle and shine? SCH says, I' a scholarly healer, with my great tome of healing and companion faerie can you not see how we work together to heal your wounds? WHM says, I'm the mighty White Mage, see my big stick and watch me cure your bursty needs...yeah, kinda needs some work there.

I think that one of the things I miss most with playing my WHM is my wand and shield. So, where AST has it's disco ball and Deck O'Wonder and SCH has it's grimoire and Faerie, WHM should have it's wand and shield. In closing, give me my bloody shield back!