Quote Originally Posted by BlueMageQuina View Post
And furthermore, we have Stop... it's just called Stun in this game and WHM uses it instead. It's funny because I remember in HW reading how they were considering giving AST something to compete with Holy but settled on giving it an oGCD stun with a cooldown so it wouldn't piss off WHMs. It would, but I'd still change to put Stop [Stun] on Gravity, Blind on Holy, Heavy on Dyskrasia, Slow on Art of War; it all seems more in line with job identity to me.
The stun on Holy is necessary because WHM does not have many off-GCD heals. While other healers can do AoE damage with GCDs and still heal the tank with off-GCDs WHM would be locked into spamming GCD heals and their damage would go downhill.