Quote Originally Posted by Renathras View Post
With this, I totally agree. But the reason WHM is so non-meta is it doesn't win any of those arguments.
The reason WHM is non-Meta is because of YEARS of being shafted and people just accepted for the most part.
In HW, WHM had MP issues, even with the inclusion of several oGCDs and the MP restore on Assize being added to its toolkit. AST would go on to receive several buffs to its toolkit that made it not only comparable to WHM in terms of healing output but had significantly better sustain AND offered utility that WHM couldn't match.
In SB, they fixed WHM's long standing MP issue with the creation of Thin Air but shafted it in literally every other category. Removal of Stoneskin so no on demand shielding, Divine Benison requiring Lilies to even work but using up ALL lilies when used, the original conception of Lilies/Confessions being RNG based, as well as the trait Secret of the Lily 2. Let's also not forget that they also decided to just rip out several of WHM's skill entirely from the class to make them Role Actions, like Divine Seal becoming Largesse so that SCH and AST could just buff up their already powerful heals even more than WHM could ever hope to catch up with.
It wasn't until ShB that WHM became even remotely close to being meta that some people even asked for WHM to be NERFED because "It's the simple job, it shouldn't do more damage than the complex AST/SCH".

There has never been hope for WHM to be meta since it just kept getting worse but people just kept gaslighting any and all complaints towards the job because it was "simple" as though that was an excuse. Which is why I can never understand people that argue to keep the terrible Healer design on WHM when it so clearly needs SOMETHING to make it stand out more.