Quote Originally Posted by GrimGale View Post
If we can have jobs without party utility like BLM and SAM that ditch out high dps, we cam have Helaers without party utility that ditch out high dps.

Sage seems to be going the route of "Selfish" dps with shields.

Having WHM be the selfish dps with regen/pure heals seems perfectly plausible.
I agree this could work. The community would have to be okay with it in order to make it work.

The beginning of Shadowbringers doesn't give me much hope in that vein. Remember the AST/SCH threads baying for blood demanding the "overpowered" WHM get its personal damage nerfed because it was tooooooooo stroooooooong? The DPS seem content with their relative pecking order within their subroles. I have never not seen SCHs flip their lids when WHM gets to do significantly more damage than them. Because Scholar is "supposed" to be "the DPS healer". That's a perception that would need to change for it to work. Scholar can't be "the DPS healer" AND "the utility-rich healer" AND "the smart healer" etc etc etc. One of the major beefs I've had with Scholar as a job over past expansions is that community perception sort of hogged up all of the identity space due to being good at everything; it lead to a lot of "well you can't do this to improve WHM, that would be stealing SCH's identity!".