Yoshi-P: "If you want more engaging content, go play Ultimate"

[Ixon]

It was more down to SCH mains pretty much table flipping in disgust at what SE did to their gameplay loop whilst ASTs were left with chronic hand cramp from doing sleeve draw openers for a few hours of prog.

But it was also their damage, I remember the rumor going around that a PLD Clemency-ing was less of a potency loss than a WHM casting a heal.

[Rilifane]

But it was also their damage, I remember the rumor going around that a PLD Clemency-ing was less of a potency loss than a WHM casting a heal.

You also know that WHM was the least mobile healer and relied on healing getting hard-carried by their co heal, right?
WHM dps was strong in very specific scenarios: the party mitigated well and used what free heals they had, no oopsie-whoopsies during the run, the party was willing to plan around their turret (no, not the BLM, they were more mobile than WHM... by a lot)... oh, and you should bring a co heal that is both able and willing to carry the healing.
That allowed WHM to spam Glare while being able to ignore Lilies unless absolutely necessary for movement & Assize weaving.
Basically: have 7 people cater to the clunky pile of trash that WHM was and still is and WHM is competetive...for a glorious week or two.

And for the record: WHM still relies on the co heal carrying the healing.
Look at any high performing WHM and you'll notice there's a huge gap in healing in addition to very good party mitigation. The highest dps numbers are only possible with good mitigation, co heal carry and a bit of gear and it's still dead last.
But it's okay because we need an accessible, easy baby healer so it can't ever perform adequately in both dps and healing. No, sir.

[Ixon]

You also know that WHM was the least mobile healer and relied on healing getting hard-carried by their co heal, right?
WHM dps was strong in very specific scenarios: the party mitigated well and used what free heals they had, no oopsie-whoopsies during the run, the party was willing to plan around their turret (no, not the BLM, they were more mobile than WHM... by a lot)... oh, and you should bring a co heal that is both able and willing to carry the healing.
That allowed WHM to spam Glare while being able to ignore Lilies unless absolutely necessary for movement & Assize weaving.
Basically: have 7 people cater to the clunky pile of trash that WHM was and still is and WHM is competetive...for a glorious week or two.

And for the record: WHM still relies on the co heal carrying the healing.
Look at any high performing WHM and you'll notice there's a huge gap in healing in addition to very good party mitigation. The highest dps numbers are only possible with good mitigation, co heal carry and a bit of gear and it's still dead last.
But it's okay because we need an accessible, easy baby healer so it can't ever perform adequately in both dps and healing. No, sir.

I wasn't looking at the number one parsing WHM.. I was looking at speed kills. So it's not like the co-healer was a grey-DPS, everyone on the highest speed kills was 99 percentile.. Fun fact, this is about the same reason why people bring DRK's, cause they do a lot of damage, it's not like people love living dead or DRK's lack of sustain..

"But it's okay because we need an accessible, easy baby healer so it can't ever perform adequately in both dps and healing. No, sir." and I didn't say this at all?