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

[Miste]

I think one of the main problems is the healers can all do too much right now.

They can do too much now because of people complaining constantly about healers not being able to do the exact same things the other healers do.

I mean look at this thread. It is your thread. What did you suggest in the OP?

To give WHM more things they can do.

So I find it kind of strange you would be the one to bring this up...I mean sure a weak aoe shield for WHM on a long cooldown isn't going to break the game or balance really, but you still asked for it and it is doing the same thing you just said was the main problem: giving healers, in this case WHM, more things they can do.

I mean the same thing happens with DPS jobs and I found it really funny when Yoshida and his team during a live letter basically said 'If you want what another job has go play the other job then' because people were in a huge uproar about SMN that they couldn't heal people like a RDM can because Physick is weak even though they finally gave them Bahamut too because SMN has been complaining about no cool or powerful looking summons for a long time.

I mean it seems to me the player base is doing this to themselves. They constantly covet things other jobs have on their preferred job that it starts to end up where every job has an answer to everything all other jobs can do as well and ends up having barely any diversity. I mean I play AST and WHM and sometimes on AST during difficult content I miss not having some of the tools WHM has like Assize, Thin Air, Cure III, or Benediction because they are powerfully useful sometimes, but I don't come to the forums and demand AST get the same things as WHM because of it.

It is the people who constantly complain about balance not being 100% that cause this to happen because like I said before 100% balance is impossible when all jobs play differently and have separate toolkits. So what can happen when people complain the jobs aren't balanced enough? SE adds more and more homogenization and gives the jobs answers to what other jobs have to close the gap.

The gap wasn't even really far to begin with in most cases and the jobs are still viably able to clear all content in the game, but just being viable and able to clear all content in the game isn't enough for some people and they will complain unless the job they personally like to play is always #1.

This isn't to say in some cases complaints are not justified because sometimes they definitely are because the gap is too large, but some people continue to complain even if the gap is pretty small. I mean SMN's complaining they can raise like RDM can but don't have Vercure....seems to me that is completely unnecessary.