I should probably enjoy this game while I still can....

[Kuurei]

I'll be real with you. I feel so bad for the dev team right now. Here they have crafted (what, in my opinion, is) the best iteration of WHM ever in the game, and people are shitting on it left and right.

I played this game as WHM for a full 24 hours yesterday and I think what they've done is brilliant. I won't go over a full analysis of it but at level 75 it is very satisfying.

I just feel sad, because I know it's only a matter of time before it gets changed. The devs are really good about listening to feedback but I worry they'll quickly change what they've been developing for 2 years and it'll hurt the job in the long run.

I worry less about them doing anything directly to WHM, to be perfectly honest. Aside from feedback, they also look at the data on their side before changes are made. So it's not like a bunch of players can go "Omg, WHM's healing numbers while dpsing are amazing while SCH and AST can't even keep up in either department!" unless there's data on their end that backs this up.

That said, I am wondering about how they can affect us indirectly. SCH and AST seem to be having a hard time in general, despite Yoshi stating that he wanted all three healers to remain viable. In 8 man content where we have 2 heals per a group, a good dynamic would be a WHM + one of the other two for either more dps (SCH) or more raid support (AST). If they try to equalize that so that SCH + AST is a good comp, a good number of people would probably get pissy.

[kidalutz]

I worry less about them doing anything directly to WHM, to be perfectly honest. Aside from feedback, they also look at the data on their side before changes are made. So it's not like a bunch of players can go "Omg, WHM's healing numbers while dpsing are amazing while SCH and AST can't even keep up in either department!" unless there's data on their end that backs this up.

That said, I am wondering about how they can affect us indirectly. SCH and AST seem to be having a hard time in general, despite Yoshi stating that he wanted all three healers to remain viable. In 8 man content where we have 2 heals per a group, a good dynamic would be a WHM + one of the other two for either more dps (SCH) or more raid support (AST). If they try to equalize that so that SCH + AST is a good comp, a good number of people would probably get pissy.

I think yes everyone that was WHM would get pissy that is exactly what they did in Stormblood so much so that whm the go to healer for progression groups got pushed right into the bench and not even looked at except by the lovers of the job.

[Kuurei]

I think yes everyone that was WHM would get pissy that is exactly what they did in Stormblood so much so that whm the go to healer for progression groups got pushed right into the bench and not even looked at except by the lovers of the job.

Yeah, noticed this when leveling through the content during SB.

I really don't want to pee on the party because I'm really enjoying the expansion...

But that, my friend, is a stretch

It is, I'll admit to that lol. It's still basically a glorified regen that you set near where the tank's tanking or dps are stacking.

The main thing really is that WHM seems to play the same as it did before, just with greater effectiveness and a few new tricks.