Quote Originally Posted by Mychael View Post
so many people are suggesting classes that specialize in one nook of a healer, i.e. group heals vs. single-target heals; slow, high heals vs. fast, low heals; etc. You're welcome to disagree, but I view all of these as integral parts of a good healing job. If you don't have all of them, you're missing something. In a large group, you can always have one of each specialized healer, but for normal content you only have one healer--not 5, as with DPS.
This argument is just a re-hash of "WHM should be onry healer because I say so".

1. I never said a new healer shouldn't have a diverse array of healing powers.
2. The new, larger, 24-character content will almost certainly require multiple healers.
3. I would observe that the WHM already is a specialized healer, casting single-target heals and casting targeted AoE damage mitigation. (There might have been a small AoE on its heals, but it's small enough that standing 90 degrees to a monster will put you outside of it.) If you want targeted AoE HoTs, you want the BRD, though that's a far cry from primary healing.