Quote Originally Posted by Synaesthesia View Post
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Population balance will never happen. SE going "Well tons of people are playing WHM so it must be fine" is exactly what, in past expacs, lead to out of control buffing of AST and SCH that then left WHM in the dust, as all but the most diehard WHM fans leave the job to reluctantly play the others because otherwise they get frozen out of raid parties and statics.

Mind you, we're not out the woods yet either. around x.3 is, historically, about where SE messes it up like so. If they buff the already-grossly-overperforming AST and the weaker-indivually-but-very-strong-with-AST SCH in the next patch or two...

Well, heavensward and stormblood will repeat once again. WHM will be left in the dust, and become the healer no one wants to take if they can at all avoid it.

It could happen. SE has a tendency to do this. But I really hope ShB marks a change in the trend and they don't.