Quote Originally Posted by Absurdity View Post
Just for pressing chain every 2 minutes? No. If we look at AST however it should absolutely be able to achieve higher rDPS contribution than a WHM in a perfectly optimized team. Now many people may disagree but I am of the opinion that if a job is harder to play, or in this case relies entirely on the party's performance, then it should also be able to perform better at the top end. Sure, in theory AST has the highest potential rDPS out of all the healers but how often does that actually happen? Certainly not in your average savage party and most certainly not in party finder.


Chasing perfect balance between the jobs in any given role is not only a futile endeavor but also an undesirable one. There will always be a meta and there will always be jobs that are not included in said meta, trying to "fix" this will only lead to every job essentially being the same. We've already seen the result of this overbalancing, tanks and healers are more homogenized than ever before and to no one's surprise there is still a meta comp for speedrunning or parse runs.
Ah, this opinion isn't so much "WHM should be the BLM of healers" as it is "WHM should be the baby healer". Less complex, lower contribution, just flat-out brings less to the table and WHM mains should suck it up. BLM does more damage than the utility mages, not less.