RIP WHM

[mp-please]

What is with this mindset of "buzz off, WHMs had their turn, it's AST's time now"? Are you really that petty? ALL compositions should be viable, that's what I'm trying to express. I say this as an AST main, even, who used to get quite the stigma from the parties I grouped with. I still remember how every Vault wipe was my fault, and every Thordan EX wipe was my fault. (I never even cleared that one because I got tired of the anti-AST bias with parties for it.) I STILL don't want WHMs to be left out in the cold of favor of ASTs. I want SE to fix their crappy healer balance, and work on designing future healing jobs to have unique playstyles and fill different niches, not just a "burst or mitigative" healer trend.

That's because a lot of ASTs accuse WHMs of being salty. But then anyone would be salty.

SE literally took WHM toolkit and handed it over to AST with lower mp costs and higher mp regen regardless AST having ewer. 3.2 AST mp regen was already higher than SCH but someone on SE team decided that wasn't enough so they gave ASTs yet more LA ticks for 3.4. And that was before counting with ewers.

SE constantly balances dps with brd/mch nin/mnk to keep the classes balanced, but when AST got buffed nothing was done to SCH/WHM.

When AST skillset got equalized to WHM in potencies, either AST mp costs should've increased as well or WHM mp costs decreased. Nothing was changed
When CU got buffed, stoneskin II should've been allowed in combat at 0mp cost as well (w/ cooldown ofc) so all 3 healers had a 10% shield, either that or add it up to asylum. Nothing was changed
When proshell and graniteskin got homogenized for all healers and ast given disable, supervirus and enhanced E4E should've been as well. Nothing was changed.
When, somewhere in development, someone decided to remove accuracy on healer gear WHM should've had accuracy changes to either cleric or to at least aero dots. Nothing was c... actually one thing changed, they gave more offensive spells to WHM to miss their targets. I don't mind the extra dps but this is a good example of the saying that god gives nuts to men without teeth.
When AST was equal to WHM in terms to mp regen but yet given more mp regen capabilities, WHM should've shroud buffed as well or at least freecure proc more often than 15%. Nothing was changed.

The changes above would've been nice, not really needed but they would make pretty good QoLs. After all if they really wanted to homogenize all healers, WHM would have at least supervirus, enhanced e4e and a aoe 10% mitigation.

And to add to the salt, people seem to like to trashtalk WHM for some reason, since SCH got buffed on early ARR that WHM was always labeled the worse healer because it heals too much, but damn, AST definitely needed to be buffed. But the other 2 healers also required a follow up that didn't happen and WHM suffered the most with it to to how specific the job is. I didn't mentioned anything about SCH but dissipation never got addressed.

And then there's the actual role/function.
WHM is supposed to heal lots of damage in short amount of time with cure III, with 3.4 that isn't needed anymore due to overgearing and mobs hitting like wet noodles even on raids. WHM also has the highest dps potential of all 3 healers both in single target and aoe, but due to mp issues and being called to main heal everytime that "title" is completely thrown out the window.
So yea, i said this a year ago and i say it again, the hell does yoshida want to do with WHM?