Quote Originally Posted by Evumeimei View Post
WHM has always been raw healing power. If it got tons of utility too why would we even have three healing jobs? WHM is #1 at what it does. Not all raids/content are going to cater to what it excels at (for obvious reasons).

AST has been excluded from a decent amount of content either because it still has the stigma from the original release, or because many people believed it was not on par with WHM. So, I just find it interesting that WHMs suddenly feel threatened. As far as I'm aware WHM has always been needed/preferred in the past. Why shouldn't AST be favored for once? (And who is to say it will even be preferred? The patch just came out today.)

White Mage has the least amount of raid utility of all the healers and hasn't been "needed" in savage since the 3.07 buffs. The job doesn't offer anything more than raw healing power and instants, which is perfectly okay. That is why raids take a Scholar as the off-healer for mitigation.

It's even a fallacy to think White Mage is a "safer" option than Astro. Diurnal Astro has better raid mitigation utility, up to 20% with Disable and CU.