Quote Originally Posted by Renathras View Post
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Did you really take a single clause from a 2013 opinion piece meant to talk about SCH and use that to go into a diatribe about WHM?

Let's get a few things straight here. You keep trying to white knight the WHM, but let's remind the classroom that you don't speak for all WHM players either. In fact there's another player that drops by the forums on occasion who will quite literally go to war with you to fight for the right for WHM to have actual complexity and how it's infuriating that WHM is always forced to hold the baby raddle.

Secondly, MTQ Capture both then and now uses prog footage for her guides. Do you know how frequently her videos feature people blatantly failing mechanics, dying, or are already KOed? In ARR, damage meant using Cleric Stance, and also WHM had far more restrictive MP problems, so conserving MP and waiting to see what mechanics were coming up were common when learning a new fight as a healer--particularly as a WHM, because the consequences of being in Cleric Stance at the wrong time or running out of MP were significantly more severe. But also, ARR was an experimental time. Every job was trying to figure out how to play correctly, and WHM players were, across that 2 year period of time, learning how to manage their DPS more effectively, and that was one of its talking points going into HW. While SCHs were thinking about ways to make it easier to heal when you have 2 SCHs together, WHMs were looking for better MP management and an easier time utilizing their DPS tools. And what did HW give WHM? All OGCD healing, Assize which restored some MP, Stone 3, and Aero 3--more damage, more ways to heal while doing damage, better MP management, and a new DoT.

I will say it until I'm blue in the face. No job in FFXIV should ever have its gameplay reduced to largely 1 button spam. It is a disgrace to the entire combat system of FFXIV. It is bad game design. That is fact based on the systems of FFXIV, not an opinion. If you're happy with 1 button spam, go play a Mario Party minigame.