Healer DPS

So what's the current ranking, personal DPS and group/raid?

Personal interests me, because I'm doing deep dungeons as healer.

I would say it is White mage, Scholar, Sage, and Astrologian. With scholar and sage possibly even to slightly below scholar as long as a fairy is only needed healing. Having to weave heals the sage would surpass the scholar most likely very quickly. The scholar is incredibly mobile with its damage and on the trial fights in the story mode of end walker the scholar never really stopped its damage from what I saw with ruin 2, dot, and art of war.

deep dungeon as healer, i have a feeling sage is gonna be killer solo because of kardia

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Originally Posted by Shironeko_Narunyan

So what's the current ranking, personal DPS and group/raid?

Personal interests me, because I'm doing deep dungeons as healer.

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Deep dungeons are a bit different because of the low sync and there's other considerations there than just DPS output.

As far as groups go, we don't know yet. That should change very soon, but even when it does, please also keep in mind the quality of data will be limited due to wide variances in gear.

For being the "aggressive" healer, Sage still doesn't feel as ...bursty as WHM, at least to me. It may end up doing more damage as gear and balancing go on though

It's been a few days now, and people had a chance to test out all the jobs. I also heard ACT is back with data.
Are there any new conclusions?

For now it seems that for the 2 new trials (Extreme)
rDPS: SGE > SCH > WHM > AST
aDPS and nDPS: SGE > WHM > SCH > AST

While AST is at the bottom overall, it is interesting to note that the 2 top players for rDPS on one of the trials are AST, followed by a slew of WHM (First SGE in 16th place and and first SCH in 56th place)
For the other trial the current top rDPS is a SCH but the top is pretty well mixed, with more WHM represented

Note however that there are still not that many parses and there is twice the amount of SGE parses compared to SCH or AST so it probably skews the data.

Statistics are up, so far SGE and WHM are the top for rdps. Sage is more popular in EX than both SCH and AST combined.

Buff healers will likely pull ahead later in the expansion since raid buffs scale well, but for now they're lagging behind. As predicted, Sage and AST are the strongest in terms of overall heal power, but the EX's don't really require GCD healing regardless of your comp so that doesn't matter yet.

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Originally Posted by Liam_Harper

Statistics are up, so far SGE and WHM are the top for rdps. Sage is more popular in EX than both SCH and AST combined.

Buff healers will likely pull ahead later in the expansion since raid buffs scale well, but for now they're lagging behind. As predicted, Sage and AST are the strongest in terms of overall heal power, but the EX's don't really require GCD healing regardless of your comp so that doesn't matter yet.

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Thanks for the heads up.

It also seems Sage has dethroned WHM as the most popular healer. A surprise, as WHM usually has to be pretty bad for other healers to overtake it.

Interestingly, tanks seem to have pulled ahead and are closer to DPS now. Seems those that wanted greater tank DPS superiority over healers eventually got what they wanted.

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Originally Posted by Risvertasashi

Thanks for the heads up.

It also seems Sage has dethroned WHM as the most popular healer. A surprise, as WHM usually has to be pretty bad for other healers to overtake it.

Interestingly, tanks seem to have pulled ahead and are closer to DPS now. Seems those that wanted greater tank DPS superiority over healers eventually got what they wanted.

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Sage is not the most popular healer, it's the new healer that came out roughly two weeks ago. We will be able to talk about popularity in a meaningful way in the future, not now.