Quote Originally Posted by IllyaPrisma View Post
If WHM had the same mobility and weaving capability as AST, the balance of healers would be completely thrown out the window. There would need to be potency reductions across the board for WHM to even consider it.
You also can’t compare WHM and BLM, as Shadowbringers displayed clear DPS favoritism from a development perspective.

Take a step back and think about balance rationally, and not just what you personally think is best. It’s the community spouting ludicrous ideas like yours that got healers into the homogenized mess we are currently in.
While I understand the power balance would be different if both WHM and SCH got better weaving space, the increased power balance wouldn't be that bad. The only potential problem I could see is that SCH/AST would be strong but that's nothing new really. WHM wouldn't even need to be nerfed because they lack the oGCDs that SCH and AST do.

AST would still be king regardless because of their healing and while SCH would be a monster at healing again, that comes to show you how bad their SCH changes were. Taking away their DoTs to weave and the ability to cast fairy skills while casting severely hurt SCH's ability to heal optimally.

Like the other person said, immobility is a terrible design choice. If getting nerfed to be underneath AST/SCH's dominance for better movement and weaving, I would take that in a heartbeat. I'd rather have weaker DPS than to clip a million times and still lose DPS.

Also wanting better weaving space for two jobs that sorely need them does not correlate with why they homogenized the healers. They wanted an a cleaner focus on healing and they forced all the healers to have the same DPS kit and wanted more people to play the role.

The irony is that if they wanted people to play the role than they should have made them less clunkier. WHM clips and is a more a turret than BLM at this point. SCH's fairy ghosts and we had to beg for Energy Drain back. And on top of that, AST's cards got changed and Sleeve Draw is problematic.

I would say wanting less clipping would be the last reason people call healers dull.