WHM getting progressively more unnecessary in content?

[Rappy-baba]

The usage of massive healing become invalid when almost anything in savage content one hit kill anything non tank.
Pretty sad but its the truth. Can't Cure, Cure II or Cure III dead peoples. Sad life. My internal White Mage cried. WHM is my first class healer now i barely use WHM but in solo content (Beast Tribe/FATE).

[TheMurrkin4]

don't do that. allow people to have their discussion without you're unnecessary criticism of the topic

[AlphaSonic]

If I would buff WHM I would give a trait to Cleric
Traited Cleric: Every time you switch into Cleric your next damage spell costs half mana and deals 30% more damage. Every time you switch out of Cleric your next healing spell costs half mana and heals 30% more.
I think it would give them their niche as the best raw healer and best raw damage dealer. (Technically WHM are the ones that do the most damage out of all the healers, their problem is that it's unsustainable)

[Exiled_Tonberry]

A new patch, a new raid, new dungeons, and even more content that favors high DPS over stronger healing.

Sigh.
For those who don't know, Zurvan has a mildly annoying mechanic called Soar which you can skip if you have a certain amount of DPS. With an AST, reaching this number is not too difficult.
As far as healing goes, there's, once again, nothing that requires the use of Cure III or heavy healing in general.

I don't know how long this trend of fights that are easy to heal and congratulates higher DPS is going to continue, but I sure hope it's over soon because this is becoming very annoying and off-putting to play as WHM.

[seekified]

As a WAR who has tanked Dun Scaith a few times over the past few days, I can say that WHMs are amazing in there. There's so much consistent, heavy damage going on the tanks in there (and everyone else if they don't know what they're doing), and I love me some Divine Seal'd Regens and Cures. I'm a SCH myself when I heal, but for damage that comes in multiple hits in short periods of time I feel a lot safer with WHMs.

[Bourne_Endeavor]

To be fair, that is more due to people still getting a feel for Dun Scaith. The problem with White Mage isn't that it can't handle fights effectively. Scholar and Astro simply do it all better because both offer immense amount of utility on top of consistent healing. Divine Seal + Regen or Cure III is nice; Aspected Benefic + party wide balance is better.