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

[Exiled_Tonberry]

I disagree with you that healer MP management is equal, and I find you're underestimating just how powerful Thin Air is.

I understand how powerful Thin Air is. You can frontload as many heals as you want within its window. But it doesn't give you the power to simply neglect your MP through the entirety of a fight. I find myself, in O4s and Shinryu, running very low on MP quite often, along with my co healer at the time.

I suppose it depends on a few things as well. How much time you spend dpsing, how often your bard/MCH plays refresh, How many members die and requires you to raise them. In my experience, with my playstyle, I will hit 20% or less MP somewhere in that fight on WHM.


As far as MP being more or less equal:
WHM has Thin Air, Assize, and Lucid Dreaming.
SCH has Aetherflow, Energy Drain, and Lucid Dreaming
AST has Ewer and a extended Lucid Dreaming.

AST is the weakest in MP recovery, but their low MP cost makes up for it so they end up being just as MP efficient as any other healer.

WHM is indeed the most efficient, but SCH is a very close second as of this patch. Not nearly as strong for all MP costs to be negligible as you said.