Quote Originally Posted by Acece View Post
If they make content actually hit as hard as people want them to then Whm is at a disadvantage with it's opportunity cost.
...Why would that be the case? WHM does not have uniquely high offensive opportunity costs for its curative GCDs. Quite the opposite, albeit up to a capped amount (similar to how other healers may have a bit more free ppm, but such is likewise capped).

Moreover, if WHM's identity is to remain centered at all around having above-average strength in its GCD healing, additional healing requirements means that it has that much greater a chance for its higher curative ppgcd to hit a threshold by which a curative GCD may be skipped or an offensive GCD retained.

Consider it this way. Even if WHM's direct heals were a whole fifth stronger per GCD than those of other healers, it's going to take enough casts within a window of time for that fifth to have actually made a difference. If you'd normally have to top someone off before a White Hole mechanic, before which oGCDs will already have been spent, at half a Cure II or Benefic II's worth of health remaining after the third crit-less heal, then that added strength might actually mean something -- a GCD spared. Similarly, the more incoming damage, the less is offset by oGCDs alone, again letting that advantage actually come into play.

Whm will never be as good as other healers with it's current design unless the other healers are straight up broken like they were at the beginning of Shadow bringers.
Its current design has gotten closer to parity than probably ever before. I'll not say its especially fun or that its identity is anything deep, but as far as mere parity goes, it's merely slightly lacking in ppm (potency-per-minute), or in the incoming damage enough for any of its potential scaling advantages to shine.