Should WHM get a personal damage buff?

[Seraphor]

That Protect / Shell change would certainly drop the skill floor. 8% pseudo permanent mitigation means the healer would have to heal 8% less of the time, period.

I've already explained why this is NOT the case above.
It would exchange the ~3% mitigation of our current Protect skill, for a ~4% mitigation, that can perhaps be extended towards that 8% (but not completely) with optimal play and anticipation of enemy attacks and their damage types.

This means that, at most, WHM's other skills, OR the mitigation of SCH/AST only needs to be nerfed/buffed by a couple of percent. Something any additional skills in 5.0 are likely to do anyway.