Quote Originally Posted by mp-please View Post
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This is where I disagree. The granite skin and cleric stance accuracy are gimicky things. They don't really that much value, though I guess accuracy would make DPS less frustrating to do as WHM though there are other ways to achieve accuracy and will be addressed in the upcoming content patches according to Yoshi P . I also disagree that WHM is not as a viable progression healer. WHM is the most reliable progression healer, as it always has been, and the changes to AST in no way diminish this.

As gear grows and healing diminishes (presumably you'll have things on farm) you could easily swap out your accessories to DPS accessories for accuracy and heal & DPS. If you don't have it farm obviously there are other issues healing or otherwise that need to be addressed and a WHM is always going to be a solid choice for solo healing so that a SCH could assist DPS.