Quote Originally Posted by Reiryuu View Post
That's the problem. The other roles never *HAD* their equivalents. Protect, Cleric Stance and Divine Seal were all unique whm abilities. Protect and the Pro/Shell trait got passed to SCH and AST in 3.0. Cleric stance has always been passed out and now Divine Seal is gone. All the roles had an esuna-esque ability so that's not a problem. But what does SCH give us? Eye for an Eye... ONE ability. What does AST give us? Jack $hit.
Sigh...
  • All three healers had a way to increase Healing potency. AST has Synastry, WHM has Divine Seal, SCH has Dissipation and Fey Illumination. It is likely that they'll all lose these in favor of the cross-role Divine Seal clone.
  • Scholar is "losing" Eye for an Eye. This might actually suck quite a bit cause I'm not sure the new E4E will interact at all with Deployment Tactics. That is, if Deployment Tactics even makes it into the expansion.
  • All three healers are losing Esuna, Leeches and Exalted Detriment.
  • WHM and SCH are losing Virus (and it's likely that AST is losing Disable), since it is now being ported to a Caster DPS role skill, depriving us from a big form of mitigation. A much harder hit for SCH and AST since their mitigation debuffs were far stronger.
  • SCH and AST are COMPLTELY LOSING Aero and Stoneskin. Aero is a particularly hard hit for SCH DPS, and while it's not a horrible hit for AST, it was necessary for weaving cards in-between GCDs.
  • SCH is losing Blizzard II, which is the only form of AoE nuke they have once Bane is set. AST is also losing Blizzard II pre-50, which means they will have no AoE until lvl 52.
  • WHM, SCH and AST are all losing their Heavy inflicts (Stone, Miasma and Stella) in favor of Break.
  • It is also very likely that AST is "losing" Luminiferous Aether, while I find it even more likely that SCH's MP regeneration through Aetherflow is being severely nerfed due to the addition of Lucid Dream. What impact this will have on the job, we still have to wait and see. It's also likely that SCH has lost the ability to let Eos freely heal party members automatically, which will completely change the job's current core mechanics, and it also is likely a hard nerf.
Please stop crying about WHM being absolutely shafted by these role-based skills. The only thing you're uniquely "losing" is Protect. SCH and AST are losing access to very important skills too, yet you don't see us doomsaying about our jobs being destroyed.

At least wait a little bit until the game is actually released before crying wolf. It's only been a couple of hours and it's already getting horribly old.