Just cancelled my pre-order.

[winsock]

I haven't followed SB changes as much as a prolly should. Looks like WHM is likely to take a back seat to AST in end game 8 mans. Kinda like HW atm.

Is it taking a step backwards at all in competitiveness? Or just not moving forward? I.E. is it still going to be a preferred choice for 4 mans and competitive in 24?

[Aramina]

I haven't followed SB changes as much as a prolly should. Looks like WHM is likely to take a back seat to AST in end game 8 mans. Kinda like HW atm.

Is it taking a step backwards at all in competitiveness? Or just not moving forward? I.E. is it still going to be a preferred choice for 4 mans and competitive in 24?

4 mans it will be even more amazing with the addition of Thin Air and it will be fine in 24m.

[Saraphin]

snip

let me put it this way, WHMs are about to be put on the "Short bus" for everything but dungeons, by the look of it. And i'm not saying "short bus" in a full bad way, I've got an Autistic child that couldn't go on the large busses due to his condition.

while before WHMs were at least on the main bus, if given a their own seat while AST and SCH sat a row back. WHMs could look across the way at...let's say...Monks and knew the pain of the other.

Won't say AST didn't get the "Short bus" treatment at the beginning of HW, they did, so did MCH, but it has been slowly changing and it feels like Yoshi-P and the dev team are saying "Play AST, it's better than WHM" especially when the community already crunches numbers on their healing and DPS.