Quote Originally Posted by SweetPete View Post
The middle ground is give the other healers special skills too that will make them equally desirable. I mean I know they don’t wanna go back to Astro having a guaranteed raid spot well this is the mess they made and they need to fix it. I’m glad they waiting until 7.0 to show us what they came up with. It will also give them time to give the other healers hopefully equally nice stuff too so we can have our pick in high end raids and not just Guaranteed Astro spot.
I’d like to see the healers get their diversity back instead of feeling like each is the same with different ability names. The only way they could make WHM competitive with AST is to give it a raid buff to compete. Unfortunately there is no competition against buffs that up the raid’s damage; WHM’s personal damage has never been enough. The devs need to break their design philosophy when it comes to buff healers and no-buff healers if the desire is to make all of them competitive at the top of the highest end.

That said, a guaranteed spot for AST is only “required” in speedkill meta and parse runs. If you just raid casually, it doesn’t matter nearly as much which healer combo you take. Even some of the high-end raid groups did SCH/SGE this tier. My static did that on occasion when our AST just didn’t feel like playing the job for the night (which was frequent because she’s just as frustrated with the job as other veteran ASTs), and we weren’t a casual group.