WHM going to become black sheep of healers again

[Billythepancake]

I play midcore, and I had more than one person try forcing me to play AST. Rarely to SCH, because every single party I ever healed in had me paired with a SCH, so I find that apparently even split between all healers in StB extremely hard to believe. SCH was everywhere.
So no hardcore at all, or even semi, yet the same "AST is far better, switch plz"-mindset. Good for you if you never had that (not as if it affected you anyway as SCH), but stop acting as if it wasn't a problem.



To quote myself:


Also this guy, in reply to the same person I replied to:


So long story short, ability to weave is a huge, glaring issue (as it always was) since all the options are either on a longer CD, or heals (you would weave into another heal, which is rarely needed), as well as the fact that we cannot get rid of lilies without overhealing in many situations. Then the way Lilie's are generated and how punishing it is to die just as you finally built up your Blood Lily after what feels like ages. Also, Misery is only a partial DPS refund.

I mained WHM for a while, I wasnt good at it granted, but even when I was a WHM main I was never forced to swap, I was asked maybe once if I could play AST instead, and after I politely told them no i couldn't, they left it at that. And while I havent raided for nearly as long as others, only alphascape really, for half of that tier I was a WHM. It wasnt until o11s I decided to swap over to scholar after falling in love with its kit.

I'm aware WHM does need something to call it's own, and I think having this huge pDPS is a step in the right direction, and as I hope for energy drain on scholar, I hope its not the only step. I'm also aware WHM has issues that need to be addressed. IE, they need some sort of lillie dump that isnt a heal, and more oGCD heals in general. TBH, scholar has way too many oGCD heals so I wouldn't mind seeing a couple of them go so WHM could have a few.