Quote Originally Posted by Alu79 View Post
Your post on SCH being best tank heals has nothing to do with this discussion nvm that whm heal tanks just as well as sch, and they have a superior single target healing kit. There is zero reason for us to have a basic aoe healing option missing from our kit. We don't JUST tank heal, there are other aspects to this game.
Actually, according to what he posted as a SCH in coil, that is what you do.The point he and most people saying, "Succor is fine" are trying to make is about class diversity. If you want to be better at healing an entire group of people then play a WHM which has 2 group heals. If you want to play SCH then you have to learn to control your pet ( which does work but requires more hotkeys and micro skills ) and utilize your various skills and not just Physick, Adloquium, Succor, and "Bad pet AI". If you are having so much trouble with playing a SCH then it might not be the class for you. As it stands, I enjoy playing my SCH and would not like it to be a clone or very closely resembling a WHM. I am already working on my WHM and I find it completely different from SCH healing.

There has been topic after topic of people complaining about SCH needing to be buffed. It doesn't. Succor works for what its purpose is: to top people off and prevent damage. If you are spamming it during any 8 man with another SCH or WHM in the party you are probably the same people that keep your pet on guard without using the sick command on an enemy to stop your pet from casting all of their spells. Then you can tell it to heel so it follows you or placing it in a good location for it to heal people. Doing this once after you summon your pet sticks with that pet until it is dismissed or dies. Pet control is part of the class, same as SMN. You have a bar of 8 different ways to control your pet. They work and I use all of them. Leeches is your debuff removal. Yes you get it at 40. None of the instances, including Thousand Maws of Toto-Rak, up to that point need it. Just heal through the 20-40ish damage that the poisons are doing. If you feel that you lack AoE healing power, SCH pet micro is too hard, or do not feel you should have to wait till 40 to get your debuff removal then SCH is not the healing class for you.

By the way, the second paragraph was a general blanket statement to the many threads I see on the Healer Roles forums and may or may-not have been discussed in this particular thread.