Quote Originally Posted by Elspeth View Post
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You're making a slight mistake here by giving potencies that much importance.

WHM will by no means be dead, but it's also not optimum as the final Alex raid is to be lower in difficulty. The identity of the WHM is to provide the highest healing output via its vast healing toolkit. This can act as a safety net for many groups, however such high potencies have not actually been a requirement for any raid so far.

As such d.AST, which isn't even far behind potency wise, has been a strong competitor for the main healer role. People have argued that WHMs superior burst DPS can account for AST bringing party buffs. But with such a significant buff to the AST cards, and the ability to extend them even further, WHM is cetainly behind at this point.

My own prediction is that any healing comp will be viable in 3.4, however I would say WHM/AST is still least likely to be the most desired. Potencies will certainly help n.AST, but it wasn't really the issue. And with d.AST being even better, I can only predict AST/SCH as being the most optimal pairing.