Quote Originally Posted by Jinzhu View Post
The pDPS discrepancy between WHM and AST is definitely over exaggerated though. It just comes down to the point I made before and that there are no truly great groups running with WHMs compared to their AST counterpart.
I really don't think this is the only case. Sure there's less good WHMs playing but even the best WHM parses are significantly below what an AST can do.
I really do feel like they overbuffed AST accidentally through the faster Malefic III casts. Unless you're a Bard or MCH, the game attempts to control caster damage throughput by forcing you to stop casting and move. I would think that every healers potential DPS is decided with this in mind, but now that AST is not playing by the rules and is able to cast non stop it's throwing things off.

Just looking at FFlogs, the DPS discrepancy between WHM and AST is about 1000 on average. That's just not normal no matter how you look at it.