Quote Originally Posted by ForsakenRoe View Post
The solution to anyone with common sense is 'buff WHM to be as good as AST and SCH'. SE's 'solution' was to kneecap SCH and AST down to WHM, because WHM is the 'face of healing' and if that's bland as hell, everything needs to be bland as hell to match
I'm always gonna butt heads with you here, but that's the most never going to happen thing of all the things that will never happen. Square has made it clear that WHM's "identity" is The Boring One That Sucks. If you bring back Stormblood healers, AST and SCH will simply resume their collective status as the Overpowered Ones Who Are The Best At Everything. "Bringing WHM up" in Stormblood's paradigm is waaaay more than potencies. The other two could mitigate in several different ways. And had a bunch of free burst heals and regens. And party damage buffs. AOE Esuna. MP refresh. Excellent personal damage. WHM was missing entire categories of personal capability that the other two had in spades, plus they could handily cover the vanilla blandness that WHM brought to the table.

I'd love a well-designed WHM that had actual utility. But as we've seen, Square would rather destroy the entire role than give WHM so much as a fecking raidbuff. "They just need to bring WHM up a bit" is what was bandied about the forums a lot back in Stormblood. It was also not even close to true given how OP AST/SCH was.