Quote Originally Posted by Ftail View Post
One more thing to note, the personal DPS difference between all 3 healers is the closest it's ever been since the 4.5 patch. This obviously isn't including raid buffs.
... look at those graphs then tack up to 600 dps onto SCH and up to 1k more onto AST. That's not balanced no matter what you want to say about this supposed HPS strength.

Try healing Final on WHM, Cure III is all but useless. AST not only has a stronger base heal (albeit by a small margin) but ED, Lightspeed and Synastry to help deal with mechs like HW/2. About the only time WHM really gets to shine in the entire fight is at the end since the group can finally stack but no one really sees that anymore so who cares?

Even at the lower end with groups that don't make such good use of rDPS buffs there is absolutely no argument that can be made for WHM having less pDPS and no rDPS contribution.

I agree that obviously nothing is set in stone for 5.0 yet but with SE's track record surrounding WHM/healer balance no one can realistically blame WHM mains for being worried.