And so it begins again

[Lunaxia]

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There was also IIRC a sizeable thread on reddit at 4.0 about it; things quietened down when the ridiculous Cure-dependent lily proc was removed and DB improved, but the original sentiments haven't really changed.

You could conveniently make the same assumption here, though. The happy (non-WHM main) minority are here saying WHM feels fine, the unhappy majority are not a part of the forum. It evidently caused enough of a problem that the dev team modified the worst aspects of the job, but the lesser complaints remain. And while these complaints remain, the other classes receive more attention.

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If you don't think 10% or less of a difference matters to players in terms of clears and speed... boy, we've really been playing a different game.

And I'm on that path already, make no mistake, but "play something else" is hardly a solution to class imbalance, nor should it be.

[Elamys]

There was also IIRC a sizeable thread on reddit at 4.0 about it; things quietened down when the ridiculous Cure-dependent lily proc was removed and DB improved, but the original sentiments haven't really changed.

You could conveniently make the same assumption here, though. The happy (non-WHM main) minority are here saying WHM feels fine, the unhappy majority are not a part of the forum.

We had a several hundred page consolidated feedback thread that was active up until right when Stormblood released on this forum, full of WHM mains, and largely based on the Cure/Lily mechanics. To say that we don't have WHM mains who feel there are things wrong with the job here on the forums is completely wrong. As is saying that WHM right now is useless or being mass-excluded from groups.

I play WHM almost as much as I play AST, and from my perspective, the balance hasn't shifted that much. And while I don't raid on here myself, I can tell you several reasons my raiding friends have been happy to have WHMs in their groups: strong, reliable, consistent healing and damage, with tons of emergency tools. Could WHM use a few changes and some utility? Sure, definitely. But WHM is far from being utter garbage. As mentioned WHM is by far the strongest healer for learning and progression, and once you get out of that phase, it hardly makes much of a difference which healer you bring.