Quote Originally Posted by Ghishlain View Post
WHM has better MP sustain, better throughput, and higher raw single target DPS. This isn't 3.4 anymore where D.AST outshines WHM in every single facet of the kit. WHM now has a niche they can put their name onto and differentiate them from their AST counterpart. Groups should pick the healer pairs that are suitable for their comfort, skill, and group composition. There wasn't really that choice in 3.4 versus now.

If you and few other "hardcore" WHMs should seriously take off the 3.4 blinders and try to look at how the kit has changed, you might be able to get passed your own 3.4 biases about how the WHM kit is utterly and implicitly worse than the D.AST kit. Few people are disputing AST made out like a bandit, but there are quite a number of posters who can see what the WHM kit bring and can see how they can try to fit that into their own play versus "chasing the meta".
You didn't read the part where I mentioned WHMs higher personal DPS is a) only marginally better (around 200 dps more than SCH, at the most) and b) stinks compared to the increase the others bring to the group, did you? So tell my, why bring a WHM without anything beneficial to the group instead of a SCH or AST who can support said group outside of pure healing, while also delivering said healing at the same time? Tell me. I'm curious. Also, 3.4 bias? Not chasing the meta? LOL... Every. single. meta discussion I followed via Discord etc. agrees that AST/SCH is meta again. Better MP management doesn't do ANYTHING when there's nothing you can do that others cannot (and SCH gets buffed in that regard soon anyways, so even less of an advantage), Chain Stratagem is a pretty useful skill to have and nothing WHM can do comes close, and I don't think I have to touch upon AST and their monstrous kit. Also, most SCH I know agree that at 70 they have far less troubles than they had early on. But I didn't expect anything from an apologist anyway, so what am I even still doing here...