Dps As Healer

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FFlogs? You can't use that as a tool to judge frequency because not everyone uses it. More hardcore/competitive speed runs groups upload than normal groups or pug groups. So it would automatically be skewed.

It would be the same as judging the forums as a good indicator of the whole community even when a lot don't even come here or post here.

I've been part of the raid community since launch and I've never seen WHM's have any issues joining groups. I also raid on it from 2.0 to 3.0 and in 3.0 too so I have experience being one. If it was such large part of the community refusing 100% to take WHMs I would have seen some of it by now.

Also I never said AST doesn't need a drawback I said before they can nerf the cards or buff WHM utility np. Nerfing their healing potency to be weaker than WHM and SCH is a bad idea though. None of the healers should be weaker than the others at their primary function.

Likewise, we cannot use your claim of constantly seeing White Mages in Savage pugs because it's entirely anecdotal. I, for instance, see more and more parties outright mandating an Astro even over Scholar. FFlogs may not be a perfect representation, but it's the only numerical source we have. Keep in mind, your numbers are uploaded regardless if you even have a parse installed. If someone in your party does, you'll be on FFlogs should they choose to upload. And you might be amazed at how many pugs have a parse nowadays.

Because White Mage has always remained a stable in the raid tier. Only Creator has seen their sharp decline due to Astro's vastly superior utility. Using the same FFlog metric, it supports the notion Astro was sorely ignored throughout Gordias and Midas. The only outliner is Creator.

Doing so only homogenizes all three healers and robs their uniqueness. The only way White Mage can compete with Astro currently is to receive an equivalent to Balance. Otherwise, it will be increasingly ignored in favour of the other two healers. For comparison sake, the DPS roles are not made equal nor are tanks. Monks pull higher personal DPS over their melee counterparts and Warrior vastly outperforms Paladin or Dark Knight in raw DPS. Why couldn't this apply to healers?