Just my sad little feelings on Whm...

[Acidblood]

You're being pretty dramatic considering we know pretty much nothing about what the game is going to look like. The numbers. The overall balance. ANYTHING.

SCH and AST could have their healing abilities dramatically or mildly nerfed. WHM could have healing-based utility, which could still make it a pure healer. Massive healing could be very important come Stormblood.

I remember how many times the FFXIV community has thrown shade at new things before we knew what they really were like. Remember how much everyone hated on Ninja? Yeah, now it's pretty much required...

... Except they can't, becuase if they reduce AST / SCH healing too much then they will be non-viable (which is not good either). Also, NIN is only 'required' now because positive changes were actually made, and I can't see why people (like you) wouldn't want the same for WHM :/

Yeah same here, the healer community is acting really strange, we know nothing about the new spells except vague ideas and people are crying like they were playing their life
When you look at tank forum, you don't see 50 threads about how dark knight is going to be treated as the new paladin since they will now be able to tank magic damage without much trouble. There are some DRKs who feel afraid but the discussion is always toward speculation, not "omg my job is dead nobody wants me"
Same for the DPS, they just have fun thinking about what their abilities will be

And here you take a look at the healer forum : "Don't touch cleric" and "Whm is dead". Wow...

Because unlike Tanks, where PLD got appropriately improved, and DRK is still a well rounded class, and unlike DPS where their cross-role abilities are actually interesting (and there is some choice), Healers (and Tanks) pretty much got screwed by the cross-role system (losing a lot of basic utilities to it), and WHM in particular, that has been needing help for a while now, has gotten especially screwed (zero choice in cross-role simply to get back what they had) and all that was said for them was 'they are not changing'.