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

[Miste]

I said they will be when people once again catch on to utility is better than excessive healing.
If AST was the only healer that had DPS increase utility, I think things would be fine. But SCH has it too, and it synergizes extremely well with most jobs that rely on crit.
Just like with WAR not having any party mitigation while DRK and PLD had it, the issue of WHM not having any utility is going to create a problem down the line.

You have absolutely no proof that this will happen.

In fact there is precedence possibly hinting at the opposite. Like I said even in HW when healers were less balanced than now and AST had the buffed balance that they recently removed I still did not see WHMs or myself as WHM getting blocked out of groups even when their utility was less than now and AST was more powerful than now.

So again unless you can prove this it is simply just paranoia and doomsaying.

Why should WHM only be a wanted member for one month, then kicked aside for 6+ months?

Again prove it that people are removing and/or blocking WHMs. It's been about 3 months of this savage tier. Post proof that WHMs are being kicked out of their statics and/or forced to change to AST or SCH and proof that the majority of groups in PF refuse to take a WHM anymore since it has about 3 months since it was released.