Heh.. As I said, SCH toolkit looks great on paper, but falls short in practice, then it is further plagued by the buggy pet. I leveled SCH first, grabbed my ifrit codex, ran everything up to garuda, then switched to WHM. The difference was like day and night. One thing WHM white knights cling to is the supposed mana limit, however with fixed spell mana cost and a bard's presence (almost guaranteed in any serious 8m), there aint any more issue. Then what SCH s stuck with? Adol isnt making SCH any better than WHM at single target healing, succor simply sucks badly, render WHM helpless in heavy AoE situation.
Instead of repeating the same mantra trying to assure "SCH is fine" while you are having only WHM, why dont you level one yourself to see whether it needs improvement? I believed in SE's promise of each class having it own strength and weakness, that was why I leveled both in the first place to switch on demand. But only when I owned a 50 WHM to try out I realized the pathetic situation SCH was in. Simply put, WHM is your to-go healer, SCH is not even your secondary choice. You need a WHM in a party first before thinking of getting a SCH, but not otherwise. A pair of WHM is ok, SCH+WHM works well, but 2x SCH just cant function. You simply ignore the fact that a pair of WHM works, while SCH does not.
Just try it instead of sitting on your WHM butt repeating the same old tired "SCH is fine". Apart from the codex, they share the same gear, your 2nd job even got +50% xp bonus on everything. Try it, then get back here to say it is fine.
But after all that said, I'm more raged by SE's silence on when the pet is fixed than players' attitude towards a particular class. Given their horrid, utter incompetency regarding server issues (which still persist to an extend even now), I dont believe they are capable of fixing the pet in the foreseeable future. If one thing Blizz is great at, its their very open to their player base.

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