Giving Whm an identity

[Semirhage]

Now Whm can finally become a healing power house

*thousand yard stare*

Pure Healer Fantasy Guys.

[Felien]

*thousand yard stare*

Pure Healer Fantasy Guys.

They just need to make content that you actually needs to heal ppl.

Plus they remove the fun part of being a healer. (RIP CS)

DPS die because they took more dmg than they should? Sorry DPS mode was on and we need my dps to actually clear content, git gud days

[Semirhage]

They just need to make content that you actually needs to heal ppl.

Plus they remove the fun part of being a healer. (RIP CS)

DPS die because they took more dmg than they should? Sorry DPS mode was on and we need my dps to actually clear content, git gud days

We've been around this circle what feels like ten thousand times. If WHM is the mostest powerfulest healer of all the healers, what happens if you don't get a WHM in the party? You still need to clear. So AST will have to be able to comfortably cover that healing burden. So WHM's "advantage" is and shall always remain overhealing.

"Most powerful heals" Is. not. an. identity. It never has been, and it never will be. It's a direct contradiction to the design goal of making all standard comps viable. We told them this in Stormblood and Shadowbringers. And we were right.

[Rilifane]

They just need to make content that you actually needs to heal ppl.

Plus they remove the fun part of being a healer. (RIP CS)

DPS die because they took more dmg than they should? Sorry DPS mode was on and we need my dps to actually clear content, git gud days

Being a healing powerhouse works in a game that has:
1) flexible party composition that is not further enforced by arbitary "targets two healers" mechanics
2) higher healer requirement in generel

FFXIV has neither.
Even IF the healing requirement is a higher at the start (something they've promised us over and over again without ever delivering), it will get much lower as gear gets better. What then? So WHM is supposed to only shine in early prog like RDM did in the 1st tier and then get ditched for something that's actually useful the moment that phase is over?

Healing powerhouse works in WoW where you're free to reduce healers anytime you notice they're starting to snipe each other. You first let them respec to something that's a bit more offensive and then you switch them for a dps. Problem solved. Happy nuking.
But you need to bring two healers here because pretty much every bossfight has at least one mechanic that targets healers specifically and gets redirected at random if there are no two healers alive. And "but then one healer can just dps more" doesn't work either because a decent AST or SCH already spends all their time dpsing - WHM wouldn't free up more room for dps as a "healing powerhouse", it would only be useless.