Quote Originally Posted by Allegor View Post
Ironically, being the raw healer that does nothing else is exactly what puts WHM as the overall least favorable healer, because they have no utility that can help the party. This is where their niche being the "DPS-healer" would come in handy, but that claim has been controversial, to say the least.
WHM isn't the DPS healer. It's a niche some of us would like for WHM, but SE seems to be ardently against it. Even the relatively recent patch that buffed WHM DPS left WHM as "worst healer DPS, but by a narrower margin".

And then raw healer is a problem too. "raw" or "pure" or "throughput" healer that does, at best, as much healing but not more than as the others just leaves the job in a really bad place for any content where people care about optimization.

Whatever direction SE goes in for the expac, they need to give WHM a unique strength. Key part on unique because other healers can't be allowed to have it too or we're back to yet another repeat of Heavensward/Stormblood. Personally I'm skeptical SE will actually do this, but I'll keep hoping...