Quote Originally Posted by HopeEstheim View Post
SCH/AST will need protect, they will need esuna, they will need shroud and "divine seal copy" if that's a thing... That's already 4 slot taken for the 3 healers, but in the process, SCH loose almost nothing and AST nothing, while WHM will get a lot of new abilities. You can't tell me the devs are going to give WHM ~6/7 new healing spells without acknowledging their lack of support, and not giving any shape of it to them. Look, they literally said that "RDM will be a pure dps and no support!", and yet, he get a party 10% buff with a 4% decay every 4sec... This is not the first time the devs don't tell everything about what's coming next.
I certainly hope you are right, and I hope whatever the new mechanics / skills are they make skills like Shroud of Saints, Protect, or even Esuna (maybe we get one on a cooldown) less necessary, and I would like to think the class designers know what they are doing (I'm certainly happy with the changes to PLD, and from the looks of it BRD / MCH), so there is some hope. That said, for them to not even briefly mention a single new WHM skill (and with the most unique looking skill used in the trailer being cross-role), leaves me more than a bit worried, and until we get confirmation otherwise (i.e. a brief outline of the new skills; Stone IV does not count) I'm not going to just pretend that everything is fine.

Also regarding RDM, I never heard them say 'no support', only that it would be a DPS similar to BLM and SMN... which to me just means that it's not going to be a hybrid (like BRD / MCH) as RDM is classicly known.