Quote Originally Posted by Rilifane View Post
WHM is roughly equal with AST on most fights but since WHM has to get carried to put out these numbers, has horrible MP economy and a laughably small toolkit with long cooldowns, making it inflexible and AST can put out consistent dps while having full access to their nuclear healbomb toolkit without any dps loss whatsoever, has crazy MP economy, quick recovery and a steroid button for GCD heals for prog/ glorious chaos... why take a WHM? It doesn't matter that dps is on par.
You're absolutely right, all the points you bring up are 100% true. I have never intended to give the impression that I thought whm is in a good spot right now, quite the opposite. I have spent many posts in this thread proposing and discussing ways that whm could potentially be improved.

Quote Originally Posted by Semirhage View Post
That's the thing though, WHM's theoretical competitiveness is all it has left once the mandatory simplicity filter gets applied.
I think you are conflating simplicity with poor design. Without changing anything about the other healers or anything else about whm glare's potency could be buffed to 1000, misery 4000, and medica 2 could be changed to be instant cast, have no cooldown, be totally free and restore 20000 total potency, whm would instantly be the best healer in the game by a mile and still be just as simple and just as poorly designed. Simplicity, good design and competitiveness are independent variables.