Quote Originally Posted by lulunami View Post
Lily Bell gives WHM an Earthly Star-like ability during sustained damage sections of the fight. A WHM would typically use Cure III or Medica in these scenarios if they do not have (or want to use) Lily stacks. That is the likely reason behind the Thin Air "nerf." Thin Air can be used every 60 seconds now instead of every 120 seconds, which means using a Cure III, Medica II, or Raise will be free. You could Thin Air > Swiftcast > Raise every minute now. You lose MP economy from old Thin Air, but the trade off is a shorter cooldown which is arguably better.

WHM still has Divine Benison every 30 seconds and Aquaveil (15 percent damage mitigation) every 60s. WHM has so many skills for healing that do not cost MP.

MP has not really been an issue for any healer since patch 4.0 Stormblood launch Scholar. If WHM is theoretically the worse DPS of the healers, it will not be a significant issue. Healers are too homogenized (like tanks) for it to matter.
Lily Bell is an Earthly Star like ability...that's on triple the cooldown for no reason.

The loss to MP economy is significantly worse than putting Thin Air on a 60 second cooldown, because without adjustments to WHM's other MP recovery tools (or adding any new ones), WHM will run out of MP casting its basic damage spells far faster than the other healers. And its damage spells are cheaper than its healing kit.

White Mage has a lot of healing skills that don't cost MP. It's just that AST has far more, for no reason. It also has cheaper GCD heals that are just as strong as WHM's GCD heals, for no reason. AST is just a superior White Mage, and has been for a long time. Their free heals are better, their MP economy is going to be infinite in Endwalker, they have busted raid buffs that WHM can't even hope to match, and they trade all of this ridiculous overpowered flexibility for slightly less personal damage (which their raid buffs more than overwhelm WHM on anyway).

If WHM has the worst DPS of the healers, it only "won't matter" in the sense that it'll be viable and can clear content. Damage is the only thing WHM brings to the table. The other healers have more impactful free heals on shorter cooldowns. They have raid utility. WHM doesn't have those things. If WHM does less damage, it's just worse than the others for no reason.