WHM getting progressively more unnecessary in content?

[bswpayton]

I just started playing astro and I admit it will be a shared main along with whm for me but at the same time , what I dont understand about the games community why is it always pointed to what a job can do in a raid, like not even half the game raids. So therefore anyone with the skill level thats gona raid can play whm or any of the other healers just fine because they know what they are doing. Yes whm could use some defensive buffs but at the same time you cant point to one section of the game and claim that it isnt effective , because in my experience I have seen far worse preforming scholars, the op job in normal content than I ever have whm. And the community plays normal content raiding isnt even something that the majority of the player base does so it cant be pointed to the only way to look at a job but yet its all I ever hear.

[Cynfael]

And the community plays normal content raiding isnt even something that the majority of the player base does so it cant be pointed to the only way to look at a job but yet its all I ever hear.

I think this is because relatively few players who actually think about questions of job balance really care about it in the context of "normal" content. Fewer people care if a particular job is a little weak if they don't notice a difference in whether or not their duties get completed, and you're not likely to see players excluded because they brought the "underpowered" job to an Expert Roulette dungeon or something.