WHM 5.0 Discussion

[fantasticm]

I will need more analysis but I can see already WHM/SCH become meta for prog and speedkill.
AST will be just too bad now : pdps will be so bad, raid buff will be uninteresting to manage and not worth the effort, CO and CU nerf, shields as always inferior to those from SCH + can't stack with them while they have a ultimate skill which allow to play double stance for a limited time (so bye bye AST/SCH). AST will have nothing valuable in ShB.

I've heard AST's ultimate skill will allow their shields to stack with SCH's, though I haven't seen this confirmed. Even if it isn't true, AST isn't in so bad a place that it should be passed over for WHM. 6% is better than 0%.

Also, AST and SCH will almost certainly see buffs and QoL changes before the first raid tier drops, so we can look forward to another SCH/AST meta for the next 2 years... maybe more!

[Ilenya]

I've heard AST's ultimate skill will allow their shields to stack with SCH's, though I haven't seen this confirmed.

We can hope. If this is what knocks the SCH/AST meta down onto WHM/AST I will laugh so hard.

[Yuyuka3]

I've heard AST's ultimate skill will allow their shields to stack with SCH's, though I haven't seen this confirmed. Even if it isn't true, AST isn't in so bad a place that it should be passed over for WHM. 6% is better than 0%.

Also, AST and SCH will almost certainly see buffs and QoL changes before the first raid tier drops, so we can look forward to another SCH/AST meta for the next 2 years... maybe more!

Yeah, that's what I fear as well, and what I think people grossly tend to overlook for some reason. But, hey. Tell us to just 'wait and see' and 'stop whining, you look oh-so amazing now', then after the other two got buffed enough to erase any miniscule advantage WHM had that we are 'fine after all, even if you are the weakest of the three, but not by much, honest! So stop complaining already' and then, after SCH and AST got over-buffed into high heaven again, finally 'yeah, no, sorry, but WHM is trash and should be deleted'.

And when the cycle repeats itself in 6.0, it will be squarely back to 'wait and see'.

I disagree Whm/Sch yeah no. It looks to be the same Astro/Sch if what was shown so far is true.

Yes Whm wasn't hit as hard but not much was improved upon. Whm still offers very little but pure healing, and pure damage and that worked so well.

I really hope something is shown for all three healers.

I mean. It's hard to gut a job that was already stripped of everything unique it had, so no wonder we weren't hit as hard by the hammer as the others - since the hammer already came down super hard on us an expansion before. And we didn't really get any compensation at all... so yeah, AST/SCH it is and anyone who thinks differently is delusional.