A summary of healer issues

[Semirhage]

I wouldn't count on it. WHM could have 30% less output than all of the other healers and it would still be one of the most popular jobs in the game. Only healer you can level from 1, most brand recognition, and "BuT i LoVE HOw SiMPLe It IS" would still lock its popularity at the top. Cure and Medica could have 300 lower potency than Benefic and Helios and the community would call it "The Pure Raw Straightforward Powerhouse Healer".

[Saraphin]

I wouldn't count on it. WHM could have 30% less output than all of the other healers and it would still be one of the most popular jobs in the game. Only healer you can level from 1, most brand recognition, and "BuT i LoVE HOw SiMPLe It IS" would still lock its popularity at the top. Cure and Medica could have 300 lower potency than Benefic and Helios and the community would call it "The Pure Raw Straightforward Powerhouse Healer".

i play WHM...not because it's a "pure healer" but because it is simple, i've found it complex enough that it's not faceroll in some content, but...partly because...if you've got sound effects on..the thunk of a staff at melee range is utterly satisfying. Is it worse than others? yes. does it struggle in some content? Yes. Will I stop playing it? nope. I've tried SCH...i don't do well. at all. and WHM is not "The Pure Raw Straightforward powerhouse" anymore. most of it's niche has been taken away and i don't do savage content, EX content only with friends, so..i'm not looking for speed runs. Looking at AST and WHM side by side...i'm going to seriously hope that they do change thin air back to how it was before especially with how the MP Economy game is going.

We'll have to see how it goes, but we know that WHM will get...sorted enough to make it not a wreck in by 6.3 and hopefully NOT a ton of screaming and yelling from other healer mains.

[Semirhage]

and hopefully NOT a ton of screaming and yelling from other healer mains.

Oh I wouldn't count on that either WHM is nebulously "overpowered" if it's ever anything other than weaker than the others in almost every single way. The other healers are totally fine with letting it be only slightly weaker, as long as it's clearly weaker.

I'm playing RDM this expansion, just like I did last. Because I'm tired of being bored while playing a game I pay for.

[Saraphin]

Oh I wouldn't count on that either WHM is nebulously "overpowered" if it's ever anything other than weaker than the others in almost every single way. The other healers are totally fine with letting it be only slightly weaker, as long as it's clearly weaker.

Hear. hear. I'll be leveling my WHM and DNC first because...one of 4 dedicated healers in my FC, eventually dipping a toe to see how this new...Sage job does...but...i'm notoriously bad at SCH so...i've little hopes i'm gonna be a good Sage LOL

"OMG WHM IS BETTER THAN <INSERT OTHER HEALER JOBS> NEEEEEEEEEEEEERRRRRRRRRRFFFFFFFFF!"

yes, yes, i'm semi-making a joke, but...while i admit that SCH needs work just from talking to SCH mains, i'm living with someone that's an WHM Main, AST sub-main and man is she upset about the changes to the AST/WHM stuff.

we looked over the changes in the actions and stuff this morning and made faces.