WHM DPS needs to stay this high.

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I'm not going to go in-depth because we all know this can all turn on a dime with the upcoming patch(es) and the cycle continues.

I had an Amaurot earlier where our one first-time bonus was a DRG doing 8.6k DPS. This could have been gear or general lack of experience/awareness due to it being their first time, yet I was pushing out 11-14k as a WHM.

It has been said before that a WHM with total freedom could give a Dancer a run for their money. That was likely an exaggeration (and was something I heard during the early-access portion where everything is new and shiny rather than being dissected in full), plus I'm not one for hear-say in general, but I genuinely hope that is how things actually go for WHM. I'm very happy with the actual Healing buttons right now and have always been a "Cleric-Stance-On" minded Healer. Given our 'utility' involves +Healing Asylum, HoTs for days and one relatively long CD'd AoE mitigation button, if you butcher our damage or normalize all Healers to having similar, we will once again fall back into the trap of being the least desirable due to the others having wanted utility buttons without sacrifice to raw healing/damage (safely assuming AST/SCH gets buffs, that is).