Quote Originally Posted by javid View Post
I agree completely that WHM personal dps has to be comparable to 3-5% of total raid dps OVER that of AST's personal dps in order to give WHM the raid dps equivalency. But I was talking strictly high MP usage fights. Anytime AST has to use a Ewer card for MP rather than for Royal Road, that's a raid dps loss. And WHM has better MP management than AST innately which means more consistent use of GCDs [potentially DPS GCDs].
On the other hand, thanks to RNG, there are times when an AST will consistently pull Ewers regardless of what they would prefer, so in that sense they aren't all wasted (just unavoidable).

I agree that WHM has the potential to manage MP extremely well based on what we know of 4.0 tooltips, but I'm having a difficult time imagining an encounter where this proves a significant advantage to the WHM (when compared to a similarly skilled and geared AST or SCH) . It's not impossible, but if SE tuned a fight to the point where one healer had a clear and relevant advantage in MP management, that fight would have to be exceptionally long and/or an extraordinary healing burden.