Quote Originally Posted by elioaiko View Post
During reclears, I just straight up told my WHM cohealer to only use their oGCDs because as a SGE, I have many tools to cover WHM's lack of free healing. He even felt bad because to do really well with WHM, who doesn't have buffs or syngery, you have to be as selfish as possible for your damage to even match up to the other healers.

That is the perpetual nightmare WHM lives in. For as long as there's no reward for GCD healing, WHM will always want to cast Glare above everything else. Not to mention, having deaths destroys their MP economy–throwback to 5.0 AST not having any MP to spare.
That's sums up how WHM/ AST and WHM/ SGE and to a degree even WHM/ SCH work: you tell the WHM to not heal.
Sure, during prog everyone just makes sure you survive to see more mechanics but once the party is even a little bit confident in a fight the WHM is dead last in healing with a huge gap betweem them and AST and SGE. Even SCH, who also suffers a dps loss from using their job resource on healing, is always ahead in healing and dps in any of the ranked comps.
I remember saying "Don't heal, I got the next aoe. Don't heal, I'll blow Star in a moment" so many times and it just feels incredibly bad that this is the best way to play WHM.

It just brings nothing to the table but it keeps getting defended as if it's fine. No, it's not.
It's dead last in healing and dps. Just because you can clear content on WHM doesn't mean it's fine.
People were able to clear content with a 5.0 RDM that was so undertuned it was the laughing stock of the caster role because it fought with BRD for last spot in dps. People were able to clear content with 5.0 undertuned oGCD Mudra NIN. Surprise, they got fixed in no time.
WHM is not the "powerhouse healer". It's not the "beginner healer". It's not the "high dps healer". It's not the "prog healer"
It's the worst for healing, it's the worst for beginners, it's the worst for dps and it's the worst for prog with its horrible MP economy and barebone toolkit. But it's fine because you can clear content with it if your co heal bends over backwards to make up for your lack of anything useful.
And if a party doesn't mitigate properly, your co heal isn't on top of their oGCD game or chaos ensues, WHM is the first to notice and suffer.
But it's fine because it has Cure III and is the beginner-friendly healing powerhouse.