Quote Originally Posted by Roeshel View Post
I went through the patch notes from Shb because I saw that whm's percentile in top 50 was a lot higher in the first shb raid tier. Ast actually used to be clunky when it spammed its AoE in dungeons. It had a longer cast time so using cards or ogcd while AoE was not an option unless you want to be whm 2.0. Healing while dealing damage on mob packs was possible only if they used lightspeed. There weren't always as fluid as there are now.

I have a question btw. If whm is the worst designed healer why is it currently the healer with the highest percentile for the top 50 ultimate clears for the epic of Alexandar? Isn't ultimate supposed to be the hardest of the hardest content to clear?
WHM is the more "comfy" healer and the most popular one. 1 specific encounter is also not a good example. Any ultimate is about clearing and not much about optimization or pushing the job to the limit. When you try speed runs (which is arguably the hardest "content" in the game since you have to heal as little as possible to deal as much damage as possible) you will see whm have a very minor participation. For E12s p2, for example, only 10% of the top 50 groups had WHMs. Which is to be expected since ast + sch have much more free heals, better raid dps etc. In ultimate where the majority just want to survive until the end, WHMs gcds are very attractive.