RIP WHM

[Evumeimei]

What is with this mindset of "buzz off, WHMs had their turn, it's AST's time now"? Are you really that petty? ALL compositions should be viable, that's what I'm trying to express. I say this as an AST main, even, who used to get quite the stigma from the parties I grouped with. I still remember how every Vault wipe was my fault, and every Thordan EX wipe was my fault. (I never even cleared that one because I got tired of the anti-AST bias with parties for it.) I STILL don't want WHMs to be left out in the cold of favor of ASTs. I want SE to fix their crappy healer balance, and work on designing future healing jobs to have unique playstyles and fill different niches, not just a "burst or mitigative" healer trend.

I just think people are making a huge deal out of nothing with regards to the AST buff. You're right, all the healers should be balanced. Even if the balance isn't perfect any of them are perfectly fine to use right now, which is a good thing.

Also, no need to put words in my mouth. *shrugs* Take it as "buzz of WHMs" if you want, but that's not what I intended (I enjoy playing all three healer jobs). I simply stated that WHMs are overreacting, and that it wouldn't be a bad thing for AST to shine for once. I was just sick, at the time, of seeing multiple threads like "RIP WHM" / "SCH going to be replaced by AST" before the patch has even hit.

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.

Ah okay. Just seemed like, at least until this patch, WHM was still heavily preferred over AST overall.