Idea of a New WHM Mechanic: Thorns

[Mimilu]

Now that's just crazy talk! Next you'll expect me to believe that AST is the least-represented class in Sigmascape Savage right now! Everyone knows that's unpossible because their buffs are OP and nobody cares about healing output during progression! By god, soon you'll be telling me that they have the least amount of clears for Deltascape Savage, too!

I think that has more to do with a combination of WHM/SCH being a better/easier pair to use for progression the AST/SCH or WHM/AST. Once people start to get more acclimated to the raids and geared up, we should see a shift to AST to boost raid damage.
Another reason could be that WHM and SCH might feel more personally satisfying to play because they can weave their oGCD heals with their damage spells.

[loreleidiangelo]

I think that has more to do with a combination of WHM/SCH being a better/easier pair to use for progression the AST/SCH or WHM/AST. Once people start to get more acclimated to the raids and geared up, we should see a shift to AST to boost raid damage.
Another reason could be that WHM and SCH might feel more personally satisfying to play because they can weave their oGCD heals with their damage spells.

And you think people aren't acclimated to Deltascape now? I also linked that just so people couldn't throw out the "WHMs are useless for farm content" nonsense.

The fact is, people are playing whatever healer they want to play outside of an EXTREMELY tiny niche of speed kill content, where frankly everyone should be expected to be flexible in order to reach that level of perfection/output. No one is dumping their WHMs from raids en masse (even after the tier is on farm), and nowhere are they being excluded from PFs. Literally the only place that is memeing about them being in a bad spot is, ironically, this subforum. Could lilies use improvements, mostly with regards to their generation? Sure. Does WHM need party buffs in their current state? Hell no.