Quote Originally Posted by Supersnow845 View Post
You are reaching a long way of you think “niche” means that you didn’t mean what you proceeded to elaborate on for the rest of your original post but let’s say it does say that then you aren’t really answering what comment I made that you are replying to
If I'm reaching, it's because you're not comprehending. My main point was NEVER to focus in on WHM HoT being a niche of theirs. That is just the general idea of the so-called pure healers. Yet for some reason, you want to come in here a try to form a rebuttal around SGE having superior HoT. No one cares.

And the other healers have defined niches, SGE’s is movement shielding and mitigation, SCH’s is shields and totem healing, AST is damage buffs and time delayed heals, WHM has nothing to compare to any of those useful niches
Yeah... no. This is just an illusion. It's all healing, bud. It's all just keeping other players from eating the floor, and picking them up when they do. "Niche" as is defined, is some type of specialization. Something unique that separates one from another. Right now, this belongs to AST, whose niche has an impact on the DMG output of the entire party, and all jobs can take advantage of it being a direct buff to dmg. That's just Divination. They still have the cards as well.

It is not my intention to dumb down SGE, or perk up AST. But the notion that WHM is somehow inferior to the other healers doesn't even begin to compute. Like at all. Comparisons with something such as Asylum to Sacred Soil/Collective Unconscious/Druochole would be one of those obvious cases of such. The issue is, if SS/CU/Dr are not used, everyone still lives. The regen effect these abilities have (ala Asylum), are the main reasons why they are used. What would actually make Asylum or any healer bubble inferior would be is if all it did was mitigate damage.

I am not dumbing down healing in FFXIV either. Far from it. The thing is, when it comes to true healing scenarios in FFXIV; this happens when things aren't going according to plan. It's not this bundle of scripted goodness, and you heal within a controlled environment. No. True healing is when the S has hit the fan, and HP bars are bouncing around like the LEDs on some kind of old school equalizer. That is the eventual point I arrive at, and it is of the utmost importance that each healer be equipped to handle it. SE has gone to great lengths to snuff out, and snip any such "niche" you want to bring up. AST's remains intact though. The job has an established identity all by itself as the healer that also boosts the party's damage.

tl;dr WHM gets a thumbs up from me.