Endwalker White Mage has Issues

[Silver-Strider]

I know what you're saying, but to adjust Holy's cast time they would have to add that special something to other healer's AoE (which they said they would I'm sure? But it didn't materialise).

It's just a bit more difficult to use, which is fair when the stun is so powerful. It shouldn't be as effortless as AST. I don't think it would be balanced to be the same cast time as AST while AST doesn't have any additional power (sure, I would accept Holy being ranged instead? It would probably match better since both shield healers are melee). Not that I think AST needs buffing right now, I just think asking for 1.5 cast time on Holy is one of the things that seems excessive and could easily make the devs ignore the other criticisms that are much bigger issues.

I don't see Holy's stun as powerful. I see it as a necessity to offset WHM's lack of oGCDs. The other healers have a plethora of oGCD heals that offset the lack of a secondary effect on their AoE skills, while posing little to no risk to them due to their nature of being instant cast or ranged. Holy in comparison has the longest cast time, making it much more riskier to use while also lacking the oGCDs of the other healers to at least minimize the need to stop using Holy once the stun is no longer in effect. Once Holy's stun is used up, you have to clip what few oGCD heals you have in order to try and continue using Holy but if any AoE attacks come at you, you have to cancel your cast and move, essentially wasting what opportunity your oGCD would have offered since you had to delay your cast even more than the clipping of the oGCD alone.

At this point, whatever advantage Holy used to have is lost beneath the waves of oGCD that other healers have at their disposal and the saddest part about it is that the Devs are so terrified of touching WHM because it's the most "popular" healer and think any changes would cause it to drop in popularity so they just ignore it.