WHM getting progressively more unnecessary in content?

[bswpayton]

3/4 is better than.

If you want more mitigation they could go the route of adding some tweaks to stone skin two make it easier to apply cause most tanks dont even wait on it , allow us to use it in battle and also fix the mp issues but my thing is this and people may disagree instead of changing the job why not just change the long cool down on high either or elixers I think that would be a very simple solution

[Yeol]

If you want more mitigation they could go the route of adding some tweaks to stone skin two make it easier to apply cause most tanks dont even wait on it , allow us to use it in battle and also fix the mp issues but my thing is this and people may disagree instead of changing the job why not just change the long cool down on high either or elixers I think that would be a very simple solution

They can add healing skills that make WHM unique at level 60+ (like the examples you mentioned) but not change the job completely.
Looking back at how BRD play-style changed from level 52+. Man did people hate it when that happened. Till today they are asking for it to be changed back.

That is the only thing I wish from people asking for a change to consider.

[Cynfael]

instead of changing the job why not just change the long cool down on high either or elixers I think that would be a very simple solution

I don't like the idea of WHM suddenly having a drinking problem. Yoshi would never go for this, anyway; he deliberately steered the game away from Jobs requiring the use of consumables.

And Yeol, I do get what you're saying about WHM's relative simplicity vs. the complexity other Jobs offer, and I agree. I do think that there is room to give WHM more unique flavor while keeping it viable and not overly complicated, though. The devs could probably do more to explore WHM's indirect healing options and also to upgrade their DPS options with useful additional effects. The fact that they are saying they will consolidate skills to reduce button bloat in 4.0 gives me hope that they can make improvements without further clogging our action bars or changing WHM in a way that completely alters their gameplay.