Quote Originally Posted by Liam_Harper View Post
The biggest causes of meta healer comps are the fact AST doesn't pay any dps tax on oGCD's (and loses the least for GCD heals) and to a lesser extent that WHM doesn't have any shields. You can't place taxes on 2 out of 3 healers and not expect the 3rd to be top. WHM/SCH means someone has to bite the bullet and pay to heal, so naturally AST + Other becomes meta. AST's Noct almost exists just to compensate for WHM's shortcomings.

I do agree on preserving job identity. Classes should be designed to appeal to the players who like that playstyle. But I'd also mention that I'm against Enix's current policy of having gaping holes in the toolkit and flaws as class identity. Excessive tax, immobility, clipping, ghosting and lack of core abilities required in Savage should never be what defines a class. BLM is a case of turret fantasy done right, for example. WHM is not.
Funny enough in this speed kill meta astro diu is being played together with whm. So whm doesn’t need to heal at all and can go full damage.