Quote Originally Posted by MoroMurasaki View Post
The circle of buffs only leads to inadvertent and indirect content nerfs. After buffing WHM and AST let's say WHM comes out way ahead of the other healers. By your logic that means we then have to buff AST and SCH to match. Before you know it you've repeated the end of HW with BRD and MCH. I would rather they not do this with the healers which is why I think WHM and SCH need to be brought in line with AST. For WHM that means buffing either it's pDPS or adding rDPS to compensate, for SCH that means forcing some more GCD healing and/or reducing its pDPS or rDPS contribution.

This isn't rocket science.
You misunderstand me when I say "fix" a class, I did not mean a direct "buff". You could buff white mage potency on their dps, hps and even give them a faster gcd and it still would not fix the core problem that whm's have with lilies and plenary. Whm's are by no means the weaker of the 2 healers, in fact it still retains it's identity as the strongest pure healer but it is in dire need of some changes. Looking back both SCHs and ASTs also had their own share of problems :

Excog Quality of life change
Quickened Aetherflow
Fairy spending gauge while not actually healing it's tether target during fey union because target was too far
Lightspeed penalty removal as well as better mp management
Malefic gcd change that resolved all clipping issues
The ability to click cards off again
CU effect being instant now which allows weaving

WHMs also receive some quality of life changes with benison and plenary (iirc) but lilies (even after the buff) still remain as something that could be deleted from the game and would have no impact on WHMs are being played right now. The core design of using lilies as WHMs identity is just bad that it would take a huge buff(WHM)/debuff(SCH/AST) to get it out of its predicament and even then it will just be memed on like SAM/BLM.