Whm Idea

[MartaDemireux]

What does one have to do with the other?

I see this on a bunch of different comments “if SCH got bane back WHM would need something too”, etc. WHM deserves more toys, but there doesn’t have to be a 1:1 on all the moves. If there were, where’s SCH’s assize? Where’s our misery? Where’s WHM’s chain strategem?

It’s okay for the healers to be different. It’s not okay for one of them to be significantly weaker, but you can get around that with changing potencies.

If anything, I’d say it’s not okay for them all to be the same. Homogenisation is generally a bad thing, and given how much time healers spend dpsing aging homogenised dps kits would make them (and does already, to a large extent) make them feel the same to play.

If you want fluid aura to be a cone aoe, that’s fine. It sounds like fun. If SCHs want Shadowflare back, that’s fine too, but the one has nothing to do with the other.

Think of it this way: WHMs Assize is the answer to SCHs Fey Blessing + Chain Strategem. It deals the damage that SCH allows other players to deal and is an oGCD heal. Of course it's not totally equal in terms of numbers, but it is what it is. SCHs Afflatus Misery is present in having so many oGCDs to heal with between Aetherflow and Fairy, that they don't need to use as many GCDs to heal - Afflatus Misery is only a catch-up ability to offset the missed DPS from needing to use the GCD to heal.

The true culprit is Holy. The other healers don't have AoE mitigation like that anymore. AST lost its stun on Celestial Opposition, and SCH lost it's Shadowflare. If WHM had Fluid Aura upgraded to Flood or something and it applied Slow to the targets it hit... well AST and SCH would really be out in the cold then for dungeon groups. The easiest answer to this is removing stun from Holy, but the best answer to this is giving AST and SCH some sort of AoE-DPS-as-mitigation spell.