Quote Originally Posted by Ath192 View Post
I feel WHM is the easiest healer to play, and in SHB it was impossible to raid as a WHM because they were literally everywhere. Even now I see a bunch of WHMs in PF... so I do feel the other more complicated healers should be marginally better and they are. Looking around this has barely dented their popularity and if you search for statistics online it does seem any places with info about it support the fact that WHMs are still as popular as ever.

It is likely SE made them ever slightly harder to play and just a bit underpowered to encourage people to use other healers. It's just my guess.

I only have WHM leveled and geared at the moment, and you bet it was because it's the easiest most straight forward healer. Plus the Aesthetics are nice. So viewed through that lens I'm not really upset about it's state because I put a lot less work into playing WHM than any of the other healers do to play somewhat optimally.

TLDR its not great, it's just okay.
people play WHM in casual content because WHM can just do glare or use Holy to stun the adds. The tools of other healer are all much better than WHM, take P3S for example , people ban WHM in week 1 and 2 cuz astro can just use ONE skill on 8 man living dead , while WHM need to use a lot of skill and still might fail healer check, a lot of people quit WHM on raiding already due to a lot of reason DPS can’t win “good” sage, MP use the most and lack of MP regen , all these crazy gcd heal which is not the current meta for a while, long CD on all WHm’s big skill and didn’t give as big benefits as astro, you can check fflogs as proven document, yes, WHM is easy to start but hard to be expert, other healer do has higher bar , but once u know how to play , it is a piece of cake , not consider current healing system is totally not rewarding at all