Honest question for people dissatisfied with WHM:

[Rilifane]

It makes no difference to me at this point. My Whm is 90 through MSQ turn in and roulette. I primarily queue on Dnc now.

Whm was thrown under the bus to make Sage look better. Nothing SE can say will make me change my mind on that. I refuse to level Sage because of it and I refuse to play Whm because of it. I have an active FC. Queue times aren't an issue for me and I'm not crawling through the entire expansion on a gimped class.


What can they do? Lock roulette if they want, so I get up to 50, up to 60, up to 70 dungeons in the roulette. Because the Whm still does fine up to that point. I'm 53 years old. I'm not their 'target audience' anymore. They don't give a shit what I do and I don't give a shit what they do.

11111 spam exists from level 1, your core rotation doesn't change from level 4 to 90.
Imagine starting a dps and knowing at level 4 "This is what I'll do for all eternity". WHM was fine at 60. During HW. When it had a better rotation than 11111. But that time is gone and now it's definitely not fine at level 60.

SB WHM Lilies were the meme gauge of the expansion, they never fixed it during SB and only tried with small "increased proc chance" buffs to make it more interesting which failed hilariously and the advice every WHM got was "ignore your gauge, save UI space" until they finally made them into something more useful with ShB but also gutted every healer to 1 dot, 1 nuke.
ShB made it into a clip mage that had to rely on getting hard-carried by their co heal because its free healing was even lower and more difficult to handle than after the 1,5s cast change.
EW also gutted the only thing that made it a pretty good prog healer: Thin Air. Its job gimmick also got worse because it's a bigger dps loss than before. The capstone ability and its ST skill are both the least flexible. At least the 6.1 change will make Lilybell slightly better for mechanics that don't hit multiple times in quick succession.

SGE had nothing to do with any of it. If anything, SCH suffered from SGE release because SGE got lots of the good stuff that was once unique to SCH and now they'll be unwilling to give it back because another healer already has it.

for sure cause i started as whm and for a so call beginner easy healer going through it was so miserable up to hw where I then bought an ast lvl 60 jump ticket before stoemblood release and been in love with ast since until ew.. ruin it.

I'll never get how people can still recommend WHM for beginners. It's pure misery at low levels and the least forgiving healer that only teached bad habits. Once you got the full HW healing kit it's okay for tank healing for a bit until every healer zooms past it when they get their ShB skills and it has to wait until 7freaking6 for a MP free instant Medica. Until then it only has Asylum and Assize as oGCDs. Perfect for ingraining the habit of spamming Medica II into every WHM's brain.

Misery is probably just weaponized WHM salt. That's why it's such a big nuke.