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

[Exiled_Tonberry]

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 know it sounds hypocritical, but I said what I said in regards to healers going forward.
Right now though, in this expansion specifically, I think it does need something extra to compete properly with the other healers in more than just the progression phase of a raid.

What I would TRULY like is for all healers to be stripped of their huge multipurpose design and focus on one main thing. SCH and mitigation/fairy usage. AST with raid utility. WHM with heavy heals.

But that's simply not going to happen so, we have to talk about how to balance them as they are now, and for right now, I feel some form of utility or small AOE mitigation on a CD is needed.

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.

You're right on one part. Viability isn't enough for me. Viability is such a broad, wide sweeping word. It just means that it's not broken. That it can clear content, despite how it feels to play, how it is comparatively to other jobs, how fun a job is.
I really do hate the word at this point, it feels like it's a poor excuse to ignore issues with the job.

Why should a job stop at being viable? That's not what anyone should aim for or accept.

As for me wanting them to be #1, that's not true at all. I simply want jobs to be able to stand up comparatively to eachother.