4.5 WHM

[Risvertasashi]

I'm surprised people still expect anything more than a pure healer out of SE.

I don't expect it. But I do dare to hope.

Anyways, I think this will give WHM a bit of extra DPS.

It should help close the gap pretty decently. But unless my theorycrafting is off, it'll make WHM 'slightly less behind', not 'brings good DPS to make up for lack of utility' a la SAM, BLM, MNK.

Next to that this just smells of "we need to rework the class, wait until 5.0"

Yeah, everyone knows WHM needs a rework. But they could have cut some cast times and bumped up some potencies easily enough. Literally what happened to MNK and MCH just now, and AST in 4.3. It wouldn't fix lillies et al, but it'd give WHM a niche until 5.0

But the bigger issue long term is this pure healer nonsense. If SE doubles down yet again... I predict we'll repeat Heavensward and Stormblood: At first WHM will be decent, but then some content that's hard to heal will come out. The other classes will ask for healing buffs to get on par with WHM. They'll get them. Then WHM... once more... is the red headed stepchild left in the cupboard under the stairs.

The most ridiculous part is this is the only FF with the "pure healer" thing. All other FFs that had jobs or an approximation thereof - white mage brings the buffs.