Quote Originally Posted by Clicked View Post
MP for healers is how they're balanced. You are supposed to weigh the cost of AOE vs the MP you'll need to heal your group and your MP management cooldowns. Healers are the only role that can use Piety, a MP management stat. It's their whole gimmick.

MP for caster DPS is a limitation on raises OR core to their rotation (BLM). Not to mention that other casters have at least a tiny bit of decision making during the AOE rotation, where as MP neutral/free Holy Spam would not.
The same could be said previously for TP in weighting TP for AoE vs. single-target, but albeit at a lower impact/difficulty compared to the normal healer/dps hybrid.

How about this: MP classes with only CDs like TP classes, and only raises + heals costing a hefty amount of MP?
You'd combat the obvious raise/constant spam healing issues while still providing MP classes the same benefit TP classes now got.

Indeed, MP costs of AoE spells do add a tiny difficulty, but look at it like this: TP classes are now allowed to "Brain off, AoE all you want" whereas MP classes still have to think a little about their resources.
Why can't my WHM get the same "Brain off, AoE all you want" benefit?