XIV EW Job-Gameplay is Terrible... Why?

[Aravell]

The thing about it for me is, if we’re ignoring the lilies, what’s different about SB WHM that HW WHM didn’t have? Thin Air is their only good thing that came from SB WHM. Divine Benision is fine I guess, but is it really a noteworthy quality of WHM gameplay? I wouldn’t say so. And Plenary was just humiliatingly terrible, as you noted.

So sure, the rest of WHM might not have been as embarrassingly poorly designed as the lilies and plenary, but the rest of WHM was just HW + Thin Air.

And that's exactly the point. SB WHM is not so different from HW WHM.

That's why I said people are hyper-fixating on the lilies being bad and dismissing SB WHM as some kind of unplayable garbage when it wasn't. It was fine, not amazing, but also not unplayable garbage.

[Absurdity]

And that's exactly the point. SB WHM is not so different from HW WHM.

That's why I said people are hyper-fixating on the lilies being bad and dismissing SB WHM as some kind of unplayable garbage when it wasn't. It was fine, not amazing, but also not unplayable garbage.

Of course it wasn't unplayable, you could still clear all content just fine. It simply performed outright worse than both SCH and AST with it's only "gimmick" being that you could spam Cure 3 when needed, which was nice in situations where everything went wrong but isn't exactly a useful job identity.

And it being basically just HW WHM is exactly why it's considered bad, the job was already lagging behind at the end of HW and while the other two healers got actually useful new toys SB WHM got a completely dysfunctional job mechanic.