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

[Exiled_Tonberry]

All I ever here from you is "exclusion" or "imbalance" with little details about why you feel they are imbalanced.

I'm pretty sure I've said it before, but I feel their lack of utility, mitigation or otherwise will EVENTUALLY lead to them being undesirable once again. Probably not on the level of 3.4, but nonetheless I feel they're treading the same path.

[and before you argue RAID UTILITY - a good WHM's personal DPS will outshine a decent AST's personal and raid DPS contribution

Can I ask why we constantly compare "really good" players to average players? Shouldn't we be comparing players of equal skill to eachother and go from there? Granted a really good AST still can't match a WHMs DPS, but at that point their utility does push them ahead. Besides utility isn't all about the DPS meter, but what else they bring to the raid. AST brings more than just damage boosts. Stuff that WHM couldn't even begin to touch.

And finally, WHMs aren't being excluded from groups.

Also said this before, but I didn't say they were being excluded now. I just feel like with them more or less treading the same path as 3.0 WHM (no utility, no synergy, higher healing), it's going to end up happening again where WHM is just undesirable.

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But honestly I'm not trying to continue this debate. I know my fears are pretty baseless, and it's probably just a result of WHM being the only healer I care to play.
Overall I do think healers are pretty fairly balanced right now and that's good enough.