Quote Originally Posted by Gemina View Post
You're not going to be a burden on any party outside the meta. Even inside the meta, you are only a burden if a SCH or AST is present of equal skill level. The utility they bring doesn't mean jack if they cannot perform the very basics of their role, in which case they would be quite stupid to take a SCH or AST who can't cleanse and keep people alive over a WHM who can. If you narrow your vision to 'WHM must bring rDPS or they don't deserve to exist', then it will never be enjoyable no matter how good they design it.
Well, the elephant in the room says otherwise from what happened when AST got their cast time lowered to 1.5 for fluency with Cards.

Let’s also not forget the huge damage buff Cooldown of Sleeve Draw, which even with its CD of 3 minutes, it can Stack buffs on people very fast with the 3s Draw in opener. You’d be redrawing to get the right Arcanum for Divination which can be a 6% rDPS increase. Let alone, the arcana is a 6% DPS increase for one which I understand is a step down; given that Malefic IV is 250 potency, it’s only 50 weaker than WHM’s. The damage utility is going to be useful even if the duration is 15s, and it’ll be what makes AST strong once Divination’s duration is finalized.

Let’s also remember WHM has GCD issues when trying to use oGCDs(not including potential overheal from after one of the Afflatus heals, but everything WHM does most of the time is on the GCD).