Starter healer... WHM?

[Roeshel]

Any ultimate is about clearing and not much about optimization or pushing the job to the limit.

This doesn't make sense to me. Don't ultimates have enrage timer? I haven't done any so I don't know. How is speed clearing ultimate not about optimization if speed clearing savage is? Also isn't the content that tests a healer's ability to heal the best type of content to draw a conclusion from? If speed clearing ultimate is not the type of content where you are pushed to the limit which content is? When ogcds are not enough whm is prefered even for speed runs for ultimate clears. Whm is the healer job with the highest participation for the fastest ultimate clears. Savage is easy when it comes to healing which is why whm is not needed for speed clearing so I can't in any way consider that savage is pushing healer classes to the limit.

Also, ast was buffed, before 5.1 it was doing significantly less damage, despite it losing no dps from healing. So the gap between the healer's rdps is not really a matter of design. It's about balancing the classes, ast's buffs scale exponentially as the stats of your party members become stronger and stronger. For the last raid from eden's gate (titan) the top asts got roughly around 1,8k rdps from cards and divination. In e12s p2 they get more than twice - 3,8kdps. If you compare them to their real dps output you will see that for titan cards and divination boosted the best ast's own dps by 23% while in e12s p2 they boost it by 32%. That's 9% increase in rdps without any big changes being made to the cards and divination. Only sleeve draw was changed from giving three random cards, to securing that you have 3 different seals aligned for your opener. Imo that change was a nerf because you get two cards less every three mins, which you could have turned into lord/lady of crowns, and you are only achieving what rng could have done for you. In any case, from e4s to e12s Ast received 9% boost to rdps from cards and divination despite them doing the exact same thing and not receiving a direct buff. Ast has good scaling.

The only utility spell that whm has for damage increase is Presence of mind. That ability doesn't scale at all. It is a flat, linear personal buff whose efficiency is diminished by having higher spell speed which is a stat you need to deal more dps. That buff grants you roughly 2 extra casts of glare in all cases. That's 600 extra fixed potency that scales only with your personal stats. I guess this is why in the epic of alexandar ast has lower rdps than whm despite having access to the same kit as they do in e12s p2. The stats are lower so the gap in scaling is not noticeable.