Isn't it about time for WHM to get an AOE mitigation tool?

[Miste]

Except the exclusion of jobs has never been limited to just speedkills.
Open up PF right now. You'll see parties that are excluding any caster other than RDM, any melee other than DRG. And these are not speedkills or anything, they're simple weekly clears or practice parties.

It's really not safe to simply stop at simply being able to clear content/being viable. Sooner or later, the fact that WHM doesn't have any utility at all, mitigation or damage wise, is going to hit them hard. It's not noticable right now because the damage going out warrants big heals, but how long can they artificially make WHM seem strong like this? If next raid tier doesn't do as much or more damage as the current tier, WHM will immediately be ejected from all parties. I don't think it's safe to keep skating on razor thin ice like this.

This is just paranoia.

I'd like some proof that WHMs are getting blocked out of the majority of parties or statics please. So do you have any screenshots and such? Also it has to be a party where both healer slots are empty to prove they are singularly blocking out WHM with no reason behind it except that they don't want WHM.

I need this proof because as someone who plays AST & WHM I have never been excluded from any group ever for simply being a WHM. So I cannot know it actually exists in such a widespread detrimental way unless I see proof of it. Even in HW when the healers were not as balanced as they are now I never saw WHM being excluded from savage or any content.

Maybe it is time you just play a different job because it seems to me over a year of you posting the same complaints that it doesn't matter how good WHM really is you are still never happy with it. You always try to say that WHMs get excluded from a lot of groups whenever someone challenges your opinions, but I haven't seen any proof of this.

Did you know that a lot of the world first O4S clears of Neo Exdeath were done with WHMs? Their AoE healing is the most powerful of the three and their DPS spells are the highest potency of all three as well. Balance card was nerfed so the healers at the moment are extremely close in balance. 100% balance is impossible unless they homogenized all the jobs into carbon copies of each other with the only difference being the visual effects or something.



As for the AoE shield in your OP. I understand where you are coming from for it and a small aoe shield seems fine so I don't see a problem with it. It would help in 24 man raids where you sometimes get double WHM. I would say just make it same cooldown as collective unconscious or maybe longer...we can't give WHM much shielding power because they are already powerful enough in most situations and it would unbalance SCH and Noct AST.