And so it begins again

[Sebazy]

we haven't grown since 3.0 and we have little to offer compared to the other healers.

I'm going to take umbrage with this point.

We absolutely have grown very significantly since 3.0. WHM has always had brute force throughput but prior to Thin Air (as well as more mp overall via mana shift and such) we never had the resource pool to do much with it. 4.0 fixed this in a big way, propelling us from dead last to arguably first here. Not to mention, Benison in it's current form is beastly.

I completely agree that our gauge system is absolutely ignorable in it's current form. I don't think it'd actually take all that much to fix it though and I'll always remind anyone that whilst our CDs are certainly a bit plain and simplistic, we have the strongest core kit of all 3 healers by a healthy margin to make up for it. A WHM is handily the safest pair of hands for learning new content, so it's only fair that an AST is more optimal once the mistakes stop.