Quote Originally Posted by AmalonStar View Post
again....
WHM used to have the benefit of having Enhanced Protect, which caused the WHMs protect to give the party a 10% Defense and Magic Defense buff, which obviously made having a WHM in the party mandatory, aside from the fact that SCH + SCH is still a horrible combination because of shields not stacking, among other reasons.

Right now, WHM has absolutely nothing that makes it stand out from the other healers. Protect is simplified and homogenized. AST's heals were buffed to be comparable to WHM in potency, with the flexibility of Diurnal/Nocturnal which WHM doesn't have. The cards... SCH deals more dps and is more mobile than WHM, coupled with AST's cards and having the fairy to heal while the SCH deals damage, the effect is multiplied. WHM no longer has any type of uniqueness that it may have once had. Tetragrammaton? Essential Dignity/Lustrate, check. Regen? Fae-whatever and Aspected Benefic, check. Asylum? Sacred Soil, and whatever the AST has that immobilizes them... check, check. The fairy is a more powerful version of regen than either of the other two healers have, with the benefit of being able to be micromanaged for party wide buffs, cleanses, speed buffs...

I commented about having Protect act like Stoneskin already, so... check. Unless you're talking about having mobs remove a 30-minute party-wide buff and have the healer spend the mana reapplying that same buff when a boss removes it from the tank periodically... then I have no words for that.

Frankly, I enjoy having Protect and Stoneskin as a Paladin, simply because I enjoy my own flexibility to assist the healers in casting Protect on a freshly-raised party member while the boss is charging up an attack, or Protecting/Stoneskinning my party members in PVP. However, something that the game expects you to have at all times isn't useful in the slightest. The argument could be made about tank stances and particular dps-stances (Fists of Fire) but the flexibility of not using those buffs is an actual nuance to those particular jobs that actually adds depth to the game in a risk/reward sort of fashion.

Do I really need to teach you about these jobs or can you at least do some research on your own considering you have these jobs at 60?