Another WHM chicken little sees the sky falling. The sky is an AST.

[Exiled_Tonberry]

What I find confusing though, is that Y.P had to remind players, more than once, that healer were only there to heal......and yet every raid seems to promote this healing dps design.

Yoshi is extremely stubborn with this topic. He doesn't want to build this idea that healers should also be DPSing so the casual crowd doesn't get intimidated, but these fights are obviously made with this in mind, the exception to me so far being God Kefka because the DPS requirement is actually really low.

Sometimes I wonder if their stubborn stance on this is effecting balance, because it feels like they could focus a lot more on WHMs DPS to make up for a lack of utility, but making them too strong would force people to want WHM dpsing even more. AST and SCH obviously contributes utility, but WHM offers nothing beyond personal dps, so you would think they'd make that extremely strong, not weaker than SCH dps in most fights...


But yes, for once I do think we should wait to see how these changes effect things. I do really hate that AST healing and toolkit is getting closer and closer to WHM almost every patch (as someone mentioned, Lightspeed now is more like Thin Air(lite) + PoM).
I was hoping that they would slowly works towards stepping away from being so WHM-like, but apparently not.
And it's bad because unlike AST and SCH, WHM complaints never get taken seriously by Yoshi. Probably because of the point made earlier; healers are meant to heal, and as long as they can do that they're balanced enough...

[Kabooa]

Yoshi is extremely stubborn with this topic. He doesn't want to build this idea that healers should also be DPSing so the casual crowd doesn't get intimidated, but these fights are obviously made with this in mind, the exception to me so far being God Kefka because the DPS requirement is actually really low.

Savage raiding isn't the game.

It's the only challenging content in the game, however, and that's why the playstyle there changes dramatically.

For 99.9% of the game, Healers don't have to DPS, except for their own leveling content.

When you step into the .1% meant to actively challenge you, obviously, you have to change some things.