WHM toolkit suggestions and changes (PI and Lily)

[NobleWinter]

There is almost universal agreement that SCH has the best healer trait at end game but it requires a great amount of skill and foresight to function. Saving Aetherflow stacks for an emergency means the trait is useless if you wait until Aetherflow refreshes itself. The class is literally tuned to a higher skill ceiling in every way but no one understands why SE seems to promote giving it an advantage over WHM and AST. With great risk should come great reward and there just is no risk as WHM healing an encounter like there is using incorrect abilities on a SCH. If Indom is used too early everyone dies. Sacred Soil wasted a necessary stack that should have gone to Excog. Tank down. These scenarios happen frequently and the reward is that if you manage everything perfectly you perform better than the easier Healing Classes. I don't think it would be fair to let WHM be on equal footing in DPS with AST or SCH from a risk versus reward perspective. Maybe the Healer balance SE wants is just a different kind of balance from what everyone expects. If WHM could compete in rDPS and pDPS then why risk playing a harder class at all? I think many players wouldn't bother attempting the steep learning curve of AST or SCH because of this. This isn't to say that WHM couldn't or shouldn't get adjustments but maybe we should consider that more is involved in "balancing" the healers than our dissatisfaction with WHM performance in the smallest percentile of the game.