The Case for the WHM Party Buff

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AST vs WHM: WHM has 16.7% more potency per second than AST, but AST beats WHM by 5.7%. This is a swing of 22.4%. Buffs are the cause.

SCH vs WHM: WHM has 12.2% more PPS than SCH, but SCH still edges WHM out by 5% on personal DPS. This is a 17.2% swing. How!? Again, buffs.

WHM is behind in personal DPS because it doesn't even remotely reach the full 119 PPS it can achieve, not because it lacks buffs.

You even posted the argument here yourself:

Here is a log I ran through xivrdps, which calculates the damage gained from buffs, and breaks it down by ability. I chose it at random, it is a non-meta comp, and none of the participants parsed orange.

Chain Statagem is about a 1% DPS increase, and the cards are a 1.8% increase. If you add these 2.8% to either AST and SCH, you do not even remotely explain the personal DPS gap between WHM and the other two. The gap is caused by WHMs healing toolkit not allowing to even remotely reach the full pps potential.

If you translate the 1-2% raidDPS gain into potencies, you're looking at somewhere 400-800 potency per minute. If a WHM would be able to reach the 119 PPS compared to SCHs 108, then that would equal to 780 potency per minute. If you use Shadowbringer numbers, you'd get 1200 potency per minute as a WHM, at a reduced gap (due to lily), against a Chain Statagem that now provides 1/3 less potency (and whatever the new cards provide)

There sadly is no real (numerical) argument for any sort of raidbuff (for WHM). (i'd also argue the nerfed Chain Stratagem with it's "glorious" 0.66% raid DPS increase could just as well be removed, it's absolutely garbage potency wise)