Unless they dramatically nerf the potency of Embrace, nerf the healing effect bonus of Fey Illumination and Synastry (since both AST and SCH get access to Divine Seal), AND dramatically increase the raid damage in fights, WHM will spend another raid tier being serviceable, but clunky and unfashionable. That barrier is worthless, and the leash is a role skill. I'm not even convinced Haste will save the job at this point. I was hoping to switch from raiding as a scholar for the past three tiers but that's looking unlikely.

Obviously everyone is engaging in some degree of speculation at this point, and things could change, but their comments lead me to believe they just have no idea how to address the lack of balance between the healing jobs. Maybe they don't even see it as a problem in the first place, and WHM is supposed to be for casual players who only do roulettes and their weekly 24 man.