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

[Cabalabob]

Honestly I think they should just change secret of the lily 2 to make divine benison AoE when it consumes 3 lilies, I mean what a garbage level 68 skill, a 20% chance that something that happens about 20% of the time will proc a 5 second recast reduction on 2 already fairly short recast skills proced by a skill we rarely use? Come on... WHMs have been asking for an AoE mitigation tool for ages and we get that?

You think divine Beninson is garbage? What world do you live in?

Apparently one where people can’t read.

On top of this, even if this happened and its AoE strength were reduced to a smaller number like 8%, the bigger concern I'd have is its stackability with SCH/AST shields.

The last thing I want to see is a return to both healers having to shield the party with everything they've got to survive ults even when adequately geared. Succor + AoE Benison, Succor + CU, Aspected Helios + AoE Benison....nah, I'm good. I don't look back fondly on the memories of stoneskinning for 8 GCDs and watching people die if I didn't happen to start early enough.

So you’d rather if this situation arises that WHM just have no answer to it and be excluded from the content in favour of AST/SCH? I entirely agree with you stoneskinning 8 people sucked, having stoneskin 2 in combat would have remedied that. But this weird obsession people have with whm not being allowed any mitigation stands in the way of that.

You know it’s funny, where has this “no mitigation for whm” mindset even come from? It’s not like there’s some precedent for it. In ffxi whm was the shield healer having a stance that turned their cures into this games adloquium. 1.0 cnj had stoneskin and could AoE stoneskin. Protect, shell and wall are all classic mitigation white magic. So why is whm getting this mitigation stigma?

Ah pls give cure 3 to ast if it\\'s not good then.

I would trade it for earthly star any day.