Has the problem with WHM in raids fixed in SB?

[Ghishlain]

Don't forget Celestial Opposition increases this by 10 seconds too. It increases all buffs made you by 10s. So your card buffs, Largesse, Lucid Dreaming, LightSpeed, Aspected Helios.. etc Also AST can give The Ewer to anyone in the party including their self, as a single target or AoE.

The question then becomes, do you need those additional 4 GCDs of instant cast healing at reduced MP? Don't forget that Lightspeed still has a negative towards DPS spells so you'll need to be in an opportunity where you'll be able to use every single GCD with the extended Lightspeed duration effectively or else it becomes a waste. It might become a waste anyway since, in terms of MP efficiency, your CO is better spent when Lucid Dreams is up as it's unlikely (but not impossible) that both Lightspeed and Lucid Dreams buffs would be up at the same time since they're both on different cooldown times. CO can be applied to many things in the AST kit but I wouldn't consider CO + Lightspeed to be one of the common applications since it's much better to use CO to extend and AoE Balance or your own Lucid Dreams.

And as Cerise mentioned above, AST would like to use as few Ewer's as possible. The more Ewer's they use for themselves or their parties, the less Balance / Expanded Balances they're giving to the party. If AST's largest benefit to the raid is the additional DPS they provide, then they're going to be wanting to dig for that as much as they can.

Again, I'm not hating. I'm just disappointed with how weak it is in comparison to other healers and how it's just not changing at all.

And yeah, I might go overboard in making topics. But they're necessary to get word out to the devs.
I don't mean to be annoying, but I really don't want to sit here for yet another expansion on the bench because SE has no idea what to do with healers anymore.

The only time where a large number of WHMs had "sat on the bench" was during 3.4 when S-E overbuffed the crap out of AST.