Quote Originally Posted by Vrmillion View Post
As much as I appreciate the brainstorming, this would encroach a lot on SCH's identity of pre-mitigating and shielding.

Personally, I want to see some WHM-specific utility. SCH has loads of mitigation and fairy buffs, AST has cards, WHM has nothing unique. Either SE plays to WHM's strengths and give it big potency buffs / cooldown buffs so it can heal more efficiently than other healers which gives both healers more time to dps, or they add in its own utility. Reraise, Scan, Blink, Shell, Reflect are all mostly unrepresented white spells in the game atm, or they can make up their own thing with the currently underutilized water magic.
But see, therein lies the problem. "WHM NEEDS MOAR MITIGATION" Ok, let's give it more mitigation. "WAAAAAAAH I'M NOT A SPECIAL SNOWFLAKE ANYMOREZ!"

Now, that's me being sarcastic, but still... whm's one unique mitigation (ProShell- the magic resistance was integrated into basic protect because SCH complained it was too necessariy in raids) was taken away from it giving it to both SCH and AST and then to add insult to injury Graniteskin (which used to increase stoneskin to 18% HP) was taken too. Give whm something unique and SCH and AST will complain that they need that too. I mean there is literally nothing that WHM has that scholar doesn't have and there are plenty of things that both AST and SCH have that WHM doesn't. WHM shared some abilities with those classes, so really WHM should at least get *something* from those classes back. I mean I would love to see something unique for WHMs too, but at this point in time I'd rather just have *something* than nothing to replace what we lost.