Quote Originally Posted by Reiryuu View Post
Right now SE is trying to balance an apple, a pear and an apple-pear but the pear and the apple-pear each have something extra that the apple doesn't have which makes the apple-pear far more appealing than having just an apple.
You're half-right with that analogy. To put it in plain terms the healing pairs have a natural imbalance because one of the three healers has significant advantages over the rest, SCH. Embrace alone saves a ton of GCDs that would have to be spent on Regen on the main tank in a WHM/AST comp. It's worth an effective 1.5 to 1.78% total raid DPS increase just by itself because of that (It's a 12.5% to 14.7% increase for one healer). Yes WHM has problems relative to AST but by far the bigger issue is SCH forcing them to compete with one another. AST has a lot of edges over WHM, but nowhere near as many as SCH has over it and WHM both. Fey Union and Rouse add a ton of value as well.

The problems with WHM and AST is they're not SCH. I think if you really wanted to bring it closer both AST and WHM need an oGCD regen and I'd consider boosting the duration or potency of the current regen spells on top of that. I think adding a big but shorter duration single target regen on AST and WHM would help both out a ton too. Perhaps as complimentary effects, where the strong regen is an oGCD for WHM but Diurnal Benefic gets a potency buff, while Regen on WHM gets a boost in duration and AST gets a similar potency regen cooldown comparable to it, thus allowing that pair to accomplish what SCH does when paired together.