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

[Estelle9lives]

I really wonder how many people actually believe this, considering how many people starred your comment. This is just not true. Sure WHMs MP is easier to manage, and Thin Air is definitely powerful, but overall all the healers can manage their MP more or less equally.

WHM isn't some infinite MP machine that people make it out to be, it simply frontloads all of it's MP saving tools and that makes it more noticeable than, say, Aetherflow/Luminiferous +1-2 Energy Drains every 45 seconds or an extended Luminiferous from AST.

To say WHM MP cost is irrelevant is just silly.

I'm speaking from personal experience. Even during week 1 prog the only situations where I found myself out of MP were specific cases where I died twice in a row and had absolutely no CDs + Brink of Death.

I disagree with you that healer MP management is equal, and I find you're underestimating just how powerful Thin Air is. It's up for nearly all Almagests in O4S neutralizing CureIII/Medica II's cost entirely. It can completely neutralize the cost of two raises within the CD duration, that equals to 7200 MP. And more than that WHM also has Assize for a free 10% MP recover each 60s or less.

SCH has good mana management now with reduced shield costs and ED, but Astro has much less resources, their only tool outside Lucid Dreaming being locked behind RNG - and even then, you dont really want to Ewer yourself while playing optimally. In a perfect world sure, all your CO's will line up neatly with Lucid, but in practice this just doesnt happen due to card RNG, since you want to extend the effects of the most beneficial cards.