Class Involvement

[Galdous]

definitely more white mages. see over 200 white mages nightly when I do a scan. normally about half for scholars with astro on par or slightly below scholar in numbers.

[Sida]

WHM is my main healer class and while it's true I can run stuff effectively with it even half asleep, it's more due me knowing how it works than it being boring at all. I found my challenge with dipping in as much damage I can while still maintaining good party health without playing chicken with tank health bar. I have tried about everything thought and at least yet, mnk is the only class I don't quite like one way or another.

[MXMoondoggie]

Yes WHM is still fun but it depends what you mean about fun. The thing with WHM in a raid capacity you are always the primary Healer since you output a lot of HoT so your DPS up time is a lot less than a SCH or AST which put out more buffs and mitigation utility and SCH has a pet that heals so it depends if that is fun for you. In most content though your heals are so ridiculously strong that you can remain in cleric stance most of the time and just throw out some DoT's,and use holy and assize for group damage and stuns or just stone III on a boss and DoT's. You probably want to use holy less with a DRK though they like things to hit them so they recharge mana XD.

WHM the question to ask is "Do you want to be a Healer?" but with any class in the game it's about learning how to play it and learning content so then you can start thinking outside the box like "What can I do here to contribute to the fight" outside of just going through the motions.

[Alisane]

I think the 50-60 toolkit made WHM a lot more fun than it had been previously. I didn't love WHM at 50 but I find myself playing it all the time at 60 and it even took over for AST as my second healer (SCH main).

I think some of the things that make it more fun are that stance dancing is a bit easier and you have another instant heal to help you out in panic moments. Honestly I feel like I see more people playing WHM than ever before now.

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The thing with WHM in a raid capacity you are always the primary Healer since you output a lot of HoT so your DPS up time is a lot less than a SCH or AST

That's not entirely true, you can still spend the majority of many fights in Cleric as a WHM, especially because you have so many HoTs - that is, if you know the fights well enough. I've stopped counting the situations where you can just throw a Medica II on the group after raidwide damage happens, and immediately switch back into Cleric because there's enough time for MII to top off the group until the next mechanic happens that requires your attention as a healer. There's also a lot of situations where you can get away with turning on Cleric Stance for 2-3 casts in between two mechanics, though this often requires extremely good timing. Optimizing fights like this is part of why healing in general and WHM specifically is so much fun for me in this game.