Should Divine Benison be improved?

[Miste]

You missed the point entirely when it comes to MP, and in fact further emphasize it.

MP economy is often touted as a particular strength of WHM because, well, it certainly has ridiculous MP economy. Yet, that economy doesn't often come into play super often because other healer MP seems fine

No I didn't. You didn't understand my point about it.

MP is still a strength even if some content doesn't always make use of it. FYI MP on WHM is insanely good in dungeons after WHM obtains Thin Air. Much Holy to be had.

I mean why does WHM's MP management have to be way higher than the other two in order for it to be fair? I mean we want balance right? That doesn't seem balanced if WHM never runs out of MP ever and the other two constantly bottom out extremely quickly. Right now though WHM has a bit of an advantage, but the gap between WHM and AST/SCH isn't so large where AST/SCH are having major issues managing their MP. So to me it seems to be in a good place.

The balance for MP management seems fine, WHM has a bit better as a bonus especially if mistakes are made WHM has good recovery power, but the other healer's skill requirements aren't spiking due to difficult MP management. SE specifically said they are moving away from making certain jobs harder or easier to play than others. They want the difficulty to be around the same for each job so making MP management very difficult for 2/3 of the healers while one is far superior seems against what they said they are doing currently.

I mean these arguments about "their strengths don't come into play" is a pointless argument, because 95% of this game no job's strengths come into play when no mistakes are being made. The only time any role has their strengths come into real play is in savage, rabanastre where tons of people make tons of mistakes, and Shinryu at release was quite good difficulty, or when a lot of mistakes happen in some other really easy content. That is 6 instances in the entire game where it is difficult enough to need your strengths? (I mean I almost wouldn't count O1S and O2S even).

People have to constantly tell people what is good about WHM because people -still- complain about WHM like we are still in 3.4.

What is good about WHM doesn't mean their strengths are far superior to the other two healers, just that WHM is good and powerful right now and around the same level as the other healers.

I mean we want balance right? If WHM is around the same level as the other healers then that seems like balance to me. Person I responded to was basically making it out to be AST was stepping all over WHM still like this was 3.4. This isn't 3.4 and AST doesn't step all over WHM anymore. Both are good and both have their strengths and weaknesses.

A really high percentile skilled AST solo healing O4S doesn't mean WHM isn't balanced enough or is lacking because SE simply doesn't balance their jobs or the fights around solo healing. So WHM is very prominent in O4S groups who do the normal design based composition of 2 tanks, 2 healers, and 4 DPS.


I mean my post directly responds to things he posted. If I misunderstood then okay, but he did say WHM is irrelevant and the way he compared the MP seems to me he was making it out to be an issue. So it seemed to me he was saying that AST is just far superior in everything. That would mean he doesn't think the healers are balanced so that is why I replied what I replied.