Burnt out of the healer BS

[Naryoril]

WHM has been complete trash for 4 years, AST and SCH have been blatantly OP for almost just as long.
Instead of having all the healers meet half way, they just tore them all down and tried to rebuild them, but failed miserably. The only reason WHM made it out fine is because it was the only healer that wasn't hit with their bright ideas for changes.

Or maybe it's mostly perception because people are so accustomed to WHM being heavily underpowered compared to the other 2 healers.

[Xiun]

WHM has little to no utility, so I'm assuming they decided to make their damage high to compensate. AST by comparison has the highest utility of the 3 healers, so its DPS being pretty bad makes sense from a balance standpoint.

Thats how it was even in the past, and I'm okay with that as well, but the amount of ease of raw DPS and healing output WHM puts out is ridiculous. They have a plethora of tools to put out raw healing with litle effort or casting while keeping DPS that far exceeds anything AST or sch puts out for raid DPS or utility.

Or maybe it's mostly perception because people are so accustomed to WHM being heavily underpowered compared to the other 2 healers.

It wasn't "heavily underpowered". Was weaker, but not like how the current balance has it out to be. This is a gross amount of imbalance between each healer.

[TankHunter678]

Or maybe it's mostly perception because people are so accustomed to WHM being heavily underpowered compared to the other 2 healers.

WHM was not heavily underpowered, it simply lacked utility. That lack of utility made people not want to grab it when they got the healing situation to a manageable enough level that even with a weaker in terms of raw healing/DPS healer like AST that the utility brought made up for it. While SCH could DPS and heal at the same time easily on top of the utility it brought.

All WHM needed to be brought up to par with AST/SCH in terms of being picked for serious groups was to give it some utility. Even something as simple as being able to grant everyone a 20 sec Haste or Brave effect on a 2 min cooldown. Buffs that were WHM staples in other FF games. WHM would have become the high DPS high healing healer with burst utility while AST would be the low healing low DPS sustained buffs utility.

[Boomsmash]

WHM would have become the high DPS high healing healer with burst utility while AST would be the low healing low DPS sustained buffs utility.

Still not sure how accurate my math is, but I took a stab at figuring out what the AST Balance-Bot gives you in terms of benefit. Kinda looks like 2% with a 4-man, 1% with an 8-man?

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...09#post5093409

Looking at https://www.fflogs.com/zone/statisti...Any&dataset=90 it appears that WHM do 36% more DPS than AST. It's arguable that nearly / completely offsets the AST buffs, and would explain why they're in just 11% of these logs.

If I get back to it before 5.05, I think I'll try it without cards because that opportunity cost isn't worth it.