Giving Whm an identity

[Liam_Harper]

Not at all, because Sage will change everything.

Now Whm can finally become a healing power house with Ast

You mean now WHM can finally be pushed aside entirely by AST. There will only be 1 Pure Heal spot.

WHM is not a healing powerhouse. All it has is Cure III plenary burst, which is irrelevant and overkill in any content. Outside of that it's inferior to AST in every way. Its GCD heals even cost more despite doing the same thing. It can't move. It can't weave properly. It brings no utility to the table.

There needs to be a huge rework but the developers have communicated nothing along those lines all expansion. No indication at all. The last we heard from them on reworks, they reduced Succor's mana cost and nerfed ED to "make us heal more", which is so out of touch with how SCH works in this game it's scary. That's the same team that have already completed a lot of 6.0 and likely nearly finished class design for the healers. Being optimistic with no proof and many concerns, is deluding yourself.

[Roeshel]

WHM is not a healing powerhouse.

What is a healing powerhouse? Like what is the definition of a healing powerhouse. If ast doesn't have the ability to overheal as much as a whm can you really call it a healing powerhouse? Set aside who can deal more dmg while healing, that quality becomes relevant only because healer's dps is valued in this game. Healer's dps is relevant because the devs made it relevant, not because it should be. It is just easier to force the healers to spam their one dps spell throughout the whole encounter instead of designing a fight that requires constant healing. If we had this type of healing maybe then stats like piety would have been valued more than crit and dh on healers.