Should Divine Benison be improved?

[Erakir]

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What's your point, then? That everything is fine so we shouldn't talk about anything? We shouldn't consider modifications that might make the experience more enjoyable?

I get that you're concerned about people talking like it's 3.4 WHM all over again, but I haven't seen tons of people saying that either - just this mindset that everyone who brings up anything is overexagerating. Yeah I see some (Admittedly...some post more than others about it..) It's not all.

And, daresay it, that's the exact same type of response I remember when people first brought up concerns about how square was deciding to buff AST in 3.1. "Be quiet, you just want to be broken". If referencing 3.4 WHM is a flawed easy-out to argue for buffs to WHM, dismissing immediately under the premise of "It's not 3.4 anymore" is just the other side. I'm very much worried about these kinds of responses to discussions.

As for MP -

Yes yes, much holy, funsies in dungeons. Luckily there's more than dungeons to consider, since as you say, no one's toolkits are being tested to the extreme there in nearly all scenarios.

I mean, if we take the argument about something being a strength even if it's not always needed to the extreme, we end up with the possibility of a class that's downright mandatory for a fight and useless in others. It has happened in the past, not necessarily in FFXIV, but there are examples. I still hold there is much that can be done to encounters to enforce different styles of play than what we've seen throughout the past few years, and I will encourage them to explore these avenues.

WHM's MP doesn't have to be far and away better than the others. I don't really claim it needs to. However, if Square is acting under the assumption that WHM MP is ridiculously more abundant than other healer MP, it becomes problematic as we'll be balanced around that and it's not really true in practical scenarios. Are they? I don't really think so - but I'm here to quash the idea that WHM MP is limitless just like I'm here to quash the idea that WHM throughput is insane and unmatched, cause I don't want that feedback going to the developers. They appear to be commonly held beliefs. I don't want that idea about MP economy being something that holds this job back for future design considerations.

It's a real worry of mine that when something is 'fine' that they won't look at it at all. I mean it makes sense - even if there's work that could be done, you spend development resources elsewhere. It's why I'll continue to talk about things to focus on for WHM, though, cause I very much feel it could be better.

I guess what it comes down to is you're on the defense against anyone claiming it's 3.4 and WHMs are underpowered (WHM really isn't), and I'm on the defense of those trying to oversell WHM's capabilities. All in all we probably want similar things and don't want any job to completely overshadow others.