White Mage Overflow

[TonberiScholar]

It's dumb there are so many complaints about healers being made to similar, and in the same breath players ask for healers to be made even more similar (but of course similar to their own preferred job).
WHM never was a buff class, and players that enjoy WHM are very likely not the players that enjoy buffing others.
It's fine to "fight" for your own preferred class to keep it's own identity and playstyle, but it's dumb to try get other classes changed to mirror your own preferred class and playstyle.
Even more so if your main complaint is SCH being to similar to WHM now.

Getting a raid DPS buff added (even something like Chain Stratagem where it's an oGCD you hit once every two minutes or so) would've solved the "oh noes WHM is weak and no one wants it in raids" problem that existed in Stormblood without requiring any other changes.

Compare that to how much had to be broken or removed on AST/SCH to make them more like WHM.

Adding a single skill that you hit once every two minutes back in Stormblood would've let them keep WHM 99.9% the same as it is now in Shadowbringers without requiring them to gut AST/SCH, while also going a long way towards solving the "WHM doesn't offer a DPS increase" thing that was bandied about so heavily during Stormblood.

Instead, SCH/AST lost :

• Bane
• Miasma (and the concept of being the "DoT-focused" healer
• Shadowflare
• Targeted Fairy Control
• Different Fairy Abilities
• Energy Drain
• Non-damaging Card buffs (between 3 and 5 depending how you count)
• Stun on CO
• Most of AST's healing potencies
• Some of AST's shielding potencies
• Ability to extend buffs (bet we're getting Time Mage as a Caster DPS)

Against all that...you're complaining about the potential of WHM getting one ability.

The two situations aren't even remotely comparable.

The most laughable part?

"Designated Healers" in story instances have damage buffs for the party. Go look at Lamitt in the Physical DPS Roleplay quest (I believe 76?)

My "preferred playstyle" doesn't exist in this game anymore because of your Jobmates' constant whining.