Quote Originally Posted by Renathras View Post
Oh, I don't disagree.

I'm more pointing out that this forum is kind of an echo chamber. The people here believing it represents the entire community or is the only mainstream view - a weird kind of appeal to authority/appeal to consensus fallacy - need to stop doing that. This would, one can hope, make them more open to compromise positions (like the "leave WHM alone and change the others" - a position even Misshapen Chair has suggested) instead of their current hardline positions.

But, as you say, in the end it doesn't matter. It's what Yoshi P and the Devs decide they want to do. Which is presently stay the course.
Lets be real, with how widespread high dps uptime is on all levels of content facing the problem of being stuck to spamming 1 button for most of any given content is probably an issue a high percentage of healer players face and when it comes to casuals, I don't think we can assume them caring much about how classes play on a technical level because they will just perform based on gut feeling and focus more on aesthetics. If White Mage would have the hardest dps rotation of all healers in this game, it probably would still be the most popular healer because its the iconic one which you can pick up at level 1. Hell, it may even end up giving us a higher quality of healers at high levels, because newbies get used to it.

And the leave White Mage alone position is inheritly flawed because one point of critic is already how much the noob healer identity is already crippling White Mage.