Quote Originally Posted by Semirhage View Post
Of course there's always going to be a meta, that's just how math and video games work. Where that statement has stuck in my craw in past expansions is "some healer is always going to be left out" is usually trotted out on the healer forums to mean "AST/SCH are the best and should stay that way and WHM can eat it". I'm not arguing with your statement; I've just seen that exact statement be used as part of what I'm coming to think of as the Great Healer Circular Argument, which has spun around these forums since the seventh umbral calamity. Different pieces of it get trotted out as months go by depending on the current state of the role.
- It's unfair to have lower output for more work
- Therefore more complex healers should have higher output
- Therefore AST and SCH should be more powerful than WHM
- Being more complicated is AST and SCH's identity
- Therefore if WHM gets complexity it's stepping on their toes
- Therefore WHM should be the weakest
- But don't fret, now that you're pigeonholed into having zero utility AND being weaker, I'm sure SE will find a way to fix you up so you're happy
- But don't you dare ask for more complexity or higher output, because that's AST and SCH's identity. See you back at the top of the list next patch!

I feel like I've heard the whole list a thousand times. Having your favorite job pigeonholed so narrowly is really frustrating.
Utility=/= Complexity

I press Chain Stratagem once every 2 minutes. That's not complexity. I would love a more complicated debuff system for SCH. Something to have SCH build up to. Just like the rest of the jobs.

BLM a class with barely any party utility has a very straightforward rotation that is hard to adapt to encounters. It's simple to grasp yet hard to master. This is a class that is simple and very powerful. That's why I think its a good reference for WHM to aspire to.

I am all for giving WHM more complex rotations, more power and a good reason to stay meta. I don't think it should stay as the baby healer at all. There shouldn't be baby healers at all. I just don't want WHM to have offensive utility in the form of buffs or debuffs. I don't want healers to have the same homogenized skills.