I'm really glad that people are arguing against Cure III. This argument is obsolete, maybe you could have said this in ARR, or even HW, but now? When SCH has indom, possibly the most broken heal in the game and AST has Earthly Star? The argument that Cure III balances everything out just makes no sense.

As it stands, WHM brings nothing unique to the raid, no utility, doesn't even have the highest personal damage. To say a spammable aoe heal makes up for all these shortcomings is just ignorant.

The closest thing WHM gets to being unique is being the only healer able to rip aggro off the tank, which btw, needs to be looked at already. AST aggro issues were fixed yet WHM needs to deal with it? I bet in 5.0 we'll get a brand new spell that addresses this while the other healers get completely new things to better their job... Just like number473 said, WHM is getting tools that other healers have had since forever while the others get things to even further advance. It's like WHM is always 1 step behind for no real reason.

But this is getting off topic. The main thing is, the idea that Cure III excuses all shortcomings really needs to stop, and I'd rather them give us some unique abilities that makes us useful to the raid, rather than designing fights like Kefka that reduces HP to 1 just to artificially make Cure III seem worth it.