WHM Desperately Needs An Overhaul

[baklava151]

I feel the opposite.

Healer design is stagnant and each healer plays so similarly to one another that it defeats the purpose of even having different classes to begin with. SCH and SGE are classified as Shield Healers but outside the 2-3 oGCD shields they provide, they're just as reactive to healing damage as WHM or AST. Other than AST's cards and SCH's fairy, there's nothing particularly unique about any of the healers so giving them some flavor again is necessary, IMO.

This always rubbed me the wrong way back in ShB when I played SCH (although it was mostly in casual content). Maybe it's a balance thing to keep shield healers from being too strong but I never felt like I was really preventing damage with Succor/Adlo/Sacred Soil when I usually ended up following up damage with an oGCD heal anyways. The closest I got was Critlo on the tank and Deployment Tactics but that's extremely unwieldy to use mid-fight other than for stacks

[Silver-Strider]

This always rubbed me the wrong way back in ShB when I played SCH (although it was mostly in casual content). Maybe it's a balance thing to keep shield healers from being too strong but I never felt like I was really preventing damage with Succor/Adlo/Sacred Soil when I usually ended up following up damage with an oGCD heal anyways. The closest I got was Critlo on the tank and Deployment Tactics but that's extremely unwieldy to use mid-fight other than for stacks

I feel like Pet Healer is a better term for SCH myself. They have several mechanics centered around the fairy moreso then their shields. Outside of Deployment and Emergency Tactics, SCH's Shield mechanics are largely ignored and considering that several of their capstone abilities involve the Fairy, (Dissipation eats the fairy, Aetherpact tethers the fairy and Seraph upgrades the fairy.) it just feels like shield healer doesn't really fit SCH.