WHM Desperately needs a rework

[IDontPetLalas]

With all due respect OP as you did say you aren't new to the game, - as Forsaken said all healers need some love and WHM up to 50 isn't really in a great spot anyways) - not to say that you aren't making some good points about WHM.

However as the saying goes "the grass is always greener" - I wouldn't hop over to AST both due to the upcoming rework and because AST has its own issues. One of them interesting enough is the multiple reworks- which in this specific game, in the case of healers, is not universally viewed as a good thing.

[ChonkGoblinSuprem]

Nobody's using Cure 1 or Benefic at max level, so why are they still on the bar instead of something that we'd find useful, like idk an AOE mitigation tool for WHM, or a couple of damage buttons so our rotations look a little bit more like what we had back in SB

Hold up! Are you not customizing your hotbars? Part of setting up a new class is getting my crossbars set up how I like them…. Are you not doing that?

[vetch]

I'd dispute that. Ignorance is bliss, as they say. For example, if someone laments that they couldn't try AST before the SHB card prune, I'm kinda glad for them, because it'd hurt for them so much more I'd expect, if they had the firsthand experience of going through that prune, instead of just hearing about 'how it was in the good ol' days' and forming a second hand opinion of it based on the complaints of old grumpy sods like me

Meh. I've had experience with both.

Coming to the game blind well after the rework, expecting AST cards to require decision-making based only on the game previews and being badly disappointed,

-versus-

learning what DRK used to be in HW before it was lobotomized from reading posts on the forums,

-versus-

actually experiencing a lobotomization of a job I liked with the 6.0 SMN rework,

all made me about the same level of angry.

One of them interesting enough is the multiple reworks- which in this specific game, in the case of healers, is not universally viewed as a good thing.

I dunno, seems to me like most major job reworks end up disappointing that job's veterans, not just those of healers. It seems like a trend of CBU3 focusing on attracting new players to try the job to the exclusion of all retention concerns like complexity and opportunity to improve.