The Future of WHM

[Saraphin]

This isn't entirely correct. WHM is top in DSR and it's not bottom in Asphodelos, even at the max percentile. I do think all healers in general need a lot of work, but in the current state of healers I think the other 3 need a lot more before WHM, for reasons you've stated.

Healers are in a bad state overall. they've admitted that they have no one dedicated to healers, only to DPS/Tanks. pretty sure a group of healers from ALL camps could fix/balance things, give each their own identity back without going too ham on stuff and still make it engaging...

but no...I recall plenty of...arguments/threads back in ARR/HW (and just general arguments in chat/shout/yell/welcome to a main city) about healers, how XYZ was taking away the Identity of Another healer and.....i still have PTSD from 3.3-3.5 when WHMs were even kicked from 24man content because "ew WHM."

WHMs are in...an Okay Place. just like the rest of the Healers. an "okay, but relatively boring" Place because of homogenization that has taken place. X healer can't do more Damage than Y Healer, Z Healer can't have more Utility than A Healer, Etc.

[Irenia]

I think WHM needs to be torn down and rebuilt into something that is not easily copied to another green job.

I have some ideas, but we'll see if I ever make time to sort it all out into a complete post.