Quote Originally Posted by MoroMurasaki View Post
Noct is essentially pointless outside of encounters that you have down to a science like the linked o9s video from Mono Sama.
That's perfectly normal. If WHM weren't so shitty we would see way more WHM+AST combos. It just never happens because the rDPS gap between whm and sch is outrageous. There isn't a huge gap between noct AST and SCH. Just plenty of SCH to go around because the SCH/AST balance is relatively recent.

Also, people who think WHM will ever be on par with the other healers are going to be sorely disappointed. It's contrary to everything WHM stands for in the eyes of SE, they've made this incredibly clear over the past few years. WHM will always be the non meta healer (it takes very specific content to leverage it better than the other healers). CNJ is the only healer available at the start of the game, it's meant to be the forgiving healer for beginners and people who struggle with their controls. It's the one healer who's design is to have a moderate learning curve and early skill cap.

I suspect they will fix a bit of the potencies, maybe fix a bit of weaving issues WHM has in 4.5. Nothing game changing though. Then revamp in 5.0 so we get something roughly equivalent to where we were at 4.0.