Quote Originally Posted by HyoMinPark View Post
Hey, man. I only said that could be the comparison they were making. Not that it was. It had nothing to do with oGCDs per minute - it was simply an assumption that WHM has less oGCDs than the others, which it does. And half of them are on far longer cooldowns than a lot of SCHs or ASTs.

Modifying a GCD or not, DT and ET are still considered oGCD abilities. Especially since they are not on the global cooldown. If they were, they'd be called GCDs. Same with the card actions regardless of frequency of use. I didn't include the Undraw, Empty Road, and Unspread actions as most ASTs tell people to make status off macros specifically to avoid eating an oGCD slot with the skills.



Oh look, he literally confirmed what I was assuming.
I think the way you're looking at it is still kind of flawed from the perspective of whether or not WHM needs something to open up more weaving windows. You're correct that it has less actual oGCD abilities but once you actually look at those abilities and their uses it's casting them at a similar frequency to the other healers which seems like it was Hustensaft's point; comparatively speaking WHM has a similar need for weaving windows but has no comparable filler spell.

The situation worsens in more casual content where you often don't need a Regen on a tank and casting one is basically just a lost GCD... but sometimes you're tempted by the idea of casting a Regen and then applying DB because "why not?"

I'm not saying WHM is crippled by this but as someone revisiting it after spending a lot of time as an AST it certainly feels poorly composed by comparison and this is one of the main reasons why.