With so many threads out there complaining about healer role and how brain dead easy and boring it is apparently, I felt compelled to make a thread expressing the opposite and unpopular opinion that I think WHM is fine where it’s at (I have not played the other healing classes so this will only be about WHM). It’s not boring and I find it a good challenge to play. Let me go over some points why.

1) The variety of healing abilities. This allows me to keep up on healing when performing mechs by a party can be lackluster.
2) That I only need three main abilities for dps. I am happy that when there is downtime I don’t have to remember a rotation or figure out where I was in the rotation. The simplicity with dps allows someone like me to monitor the party’s situation while I passively dps. If I have to think about a rotation or some other complexity at the same time I’m trying to monitor the party’s health, it would be too much for me.
3) How reactive the class plays. I like that with this class I can react to almost any situation. If I had to plan for how my heals should used and when during a long encounter that would make it too difficult for me to play the class. I’m not very good at that sort of gameplay, hence why I chose this class to begin with.
4) I like the lily system. Gives me a way to access better and faster healing and a big damage dealing spell that isn’t reliant on just being used for aoe trash mobs like Holy.
5) I like the new focus on using light instead of throwing rocks. Always felt that was rather underwhelming. Aero also always felt underwhelming since I always remember it being a big damage spell in older final fantasies so it was weird to me that Aero was regulated to just a dot. Plus I feel with how WHM is kind of presented with some Of it’s purity and goodness feel to it, I felt it appropriate that it’s abilities would be more light based.
6) I like how easy it is to do solo duties with WHM. That one skill (I don’t remember what it’s called atm) where you have a shield and take no damage combined with regen makes solo content much more manageable to get through. If I do the same content as a dps such as dancer, I’m struggling too much and usually wipe an unhealthy amount of times because I can’t heal myself fast enough. Potion cooldown are waaay too long and with WHM abilities, I can make mistakes without being too punished for it. I also have the ability to restore all of my health if it gets too low, unlike a dps.
7) I like the overall feminine feel to the class. I’m a very feminine person and I like healing. Those two factors is what attracted me to try the class after my abysmal failure at trying to play dps classes. It just clicks for me and I feel a very much part of the world as I go around vanquishing evil and bringing succor to the suffering :3

Anyway, I just wanted SE to know that amidst the sea of complaints, there are those of us who enjoy where WHM is at right now. Thank you SE, WHM is just fine.