Quote Originally Posted by mp-please View Post
But it's also true if a buster doesn't go over your hp pool, mitigation won't be necessary. Main reason i miss 2.x raiding where stuff actually forced us to meld vit and mitigation on busters. Even t11 which was in the easiest coil tier needed virus, adlo and stoneskin to survive the phase swap after adds.

We're at the point that if a WHM is absolutely needed, AST/SCH won't be able to heal the fight. But because yoshida wants all healers to make part, we'll always have fights that don't work like 2.x ones where you needed mitigation just to survive and then raw heal to be topped off before the next buster. 3.0 and the bad decisions concerning healers is what put us in this situation.
HP mitigated is HP that doesn't need to be healed. Just because it's not necessary doesn't mean it doesn't have value.

If raids are such that heavy mitigation is needed, it would be WHM/SCH who would have trouble not AST/SCH. The only way WHM will become mandatory is if there is an encounter that requires Cure 3 to survive.