Quote Originally Posted by Kraniel View Post
Totally. You can clearly feel that SE put most of their healer job design resources into SGE, a bit into AST, and basically left some crumbs for WHM and SCH.
That said, i've always been fine with WHM being the "dumb" healer class. I think every game needs one, or else people won't be willing to try out healer as the responsibilities can be a bit overwhelming when you're not familiar with the job. Granted WHM didn't need to be that dumbed down, but ...

(SCH on the other hand ... RIP)
Isn't whm being a baby healer what got sch to be dumb down to begin because they didn't know how balance it. It also continues to affect it because they need a "baby healer" for each pure/shield healer role.