Burnt out of the healer BS

[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.