Time to expand a little on my comments about SE needing to hire a healer designer.

[ty_taurus]

The WHM playerbase has been gradually replaced with more and more bad players. No other way to put it. The class has attracted the most "I don't want to think" type of players who don't actually understand how healers work. They'll ignore facts, numbers and comparisons because it feels comfy for them. Obviously good WHM's exist too, those who like the aesthetic or idea behind it and hope for better days, or those who simply don't like AST and their team has a SCH/SGE. But thanks to how the class has been designed over the years, good, sensible and competent WHM's are a dying breed.

PSA to all SCHs and people hosting PFs, if I'm in the party as a sage, and we need another healer, please stay as SCH. There is nothing wrong with SGE/SCH comp and I would much rather have you than a WHM any day. WHM is easily my least favorite cohealer and I'm tired of getting in PFs.

[Rilifane]

PSA to all SCHs and people hosting PFs, if I'm in the party as a sage, and we need another healer, please stay as SCH. There is nothing wrong with SGE/SCH comp and I would much rather have you than a WHM any day. WHM is easily my least favorite cohealer and I'm tired of getting in PFs.

Couldn't agree more.
Dear PF, just roll with double "shield" healer, the comp is great! I occasionally meet godtier WHMs that barely heal yet always at the perfect moment for me so I never have to lose dps to healing but the absolute majority is stuck in ARR era and is happily Cure Iing their way through content from daily roulettes to savage. WHM is theoretically completely fine for the first savage turns but in practice, the player behind it completely ruins it by thinking occasionally remembering a dot exists and spending the rest of the time spamming every scratch to full with GCD heals and getting out dpsed by melee LB3 is the way to go.
WHM playerbase is living proof that making things too braindead ruins them and now we're stuck with peple that don't really play healer but since it's so comfy-braindead and you get instant invites and free carries, they keep chosing WHM for all types of content. It's popular because you can drool on your keyboard and still get things done and the players know that.
I'd play double SGE or SGE/ SCH any day over getting a WHM I don't know.

[Liam_Harper]

WHM is easily my least favorite cohealer and I'm tired of getting in PFs.

I had multiple WHM's doing almost no damage attempting Savage reclears as Sage this week. One literally ignored their entire oGCD kit, even Assize and just used Cure, Regen and Medica II. I've come to dread the sound of Medica II whenever I get a WHM co-heal.