FFXIV and Job Identity

[Mercury_Grey]

I emphatically disagree with the premise that jobs should forcibly be placed into tiers. Every job should be easy to pick up, and have some reasonably, obvious straightforward way to play it. Every job should provide room for optimization and for players to show off their skill.

I'm especially annoyed at yet another proposal that treats WHM as Baby's First Healer, as if the White Mages of Amdapor were simpletons that just stood there casting Cure III while they waited for Mhach to give up and go home.



WHM is already dependent on the rest of the party in high end content because it has next to nothing for handling single-hit raid-wides that lop off 100+% of your HP unmitigated. "If we survive, I'll heal you" is a terrible identity, and it feels awful in practice. WHM needs more access to shields and mitigation, not less.

And adding a debuff to Dia changes nothing. It was already "a must have for optimization" because of the total damage it delivers.

i have to ask on what you want to give for WHM to be a shielder which would make it so there is 2 shielders and their step children. I'd rathor WHM bemore of a healer with some DPS then a healer that can do everything from shielding to healing. Makes me think of the StB AST and how you had to choose between shielding or healing stances.