White Mage is Poorly designed compared to Scholar

[Lucipurr]

I'm not a great Scholar but I usually find myself outhealing a better geared and skilled WHM by quite a margin, because of my unlimited mp. (people keep parsing my hps for some reason, so thats how I know). Anyone else notice the large HPS difference too? Maybe parsers are inaccurate.

[DreamWeaver]

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I can't speak for other WHMs, but personally, if the tank is in no danger of dying, I will just throw up a regen, and let the SCH heal up the auto attack damage, I will only start healing the tank during critical phases, for some examples:
1) Titan HM Post Heart, bombs + landslide + Mountain buster period.
2) Garuda HM, when add spawn
3) Ultima HM, laser spawn
4) Garuda EM, add spawn
5) Titan EM, bomb + add phase

I am doing the above, to conserve my mana for these important phases, no point wasting your mana if your partner can easily solo heal for easier phases :P. Naturally, my HPS is always lower compared to the scholar, but when things go south, I know I'll have the MP to bring it back north .

Additionally, HPS is an extremely poor way to judge the performance of a healer, so if there's anyone in your group use that as an performance indicator, please slap him/her for me

[Slark]

I'm not a great Scholar but I usually find myself outhealing a better geared and skilled WHM by quite a margin, because of my unlimited mp. (people keep parsing my hps for some reason, so thats how I know). Anyone else notice the large HPS difference too? Maybe parsers are inaccurate.

Parsers also factor in overhealing. I have tested this before, and as far as I know, you cannot adjust it. If both parties play well, SCH will probably always top parsers due to fairy, SCH having a very relaxed mana pool, and WHM being forced to stress over their low-mana returns. If shields were counted in parsers (which they are not), then that would only skyrocket SCH past their dominance on the parsers. SCH naturally do more overhealing and contribution in lax situations due to mechanics mentioned earlier. Parsers are irrelevant for healers. I can keep 100% uptime on medica 2, and regen on like 3-4 people without going oom on turns 1-4 and any hardmode primal and get like 70% of the groups healing done (putting SCH probably around the 15-20% range). If it did not factor in overhealing, and had a separate calculator for purely overhealing, similar to WoW's meters, it would be valuable and worth looking at. But right now, it is not. The best way to find out how much you are contributing is just to guestimate incoming damage, and how much of it you are actually healing.

WHMs in full ilvl90 are capable of solohealing all HM primals without ballad, as well as garuda EX (I havent done titan/Ifrit EX yet to see).

I have been asking for scaling SoS, a low-potency/non GCD/10-30s cd/instant heal to smooth healing out, larger contributions from secondary stats, and real syngery throughout the class since weeks 1-2 of release, but when I came on the forums about some of this stuff, particularly scaling SoS and an expanded kit, everyone called me a fool, telling me that all of these things are a complete waste of time due to WHMs not needing any of these things, even if they were simply a quality of life adjustment.

WHM needs to stop relying on RNG freecures, non-synergistic PIE, and crutch ballading to sustain their mana pools on hard fights, or when they are learning new encounters. There are so many things I wished SE would do to make this class better. I always preferred the less mobile, burst healers in MMO's. I prefer MT healing over raid-healing. But right now, WHMs kit can be trivalized into three things: Medica 1/2, Cure 1/2, and Regen. I could heal turns 1&2, ultima, and all HM primals with solely those spells and absolutely nothing else. Hell, I can heal most of those things with just Cure 1&2. That, in my opinion, is not a very complete class. Most of our kit besides these abilities are either too weak, have too long of CDs, are very situational, or are just meh in general. Don't get me wrong, I utilize every single tool given to me, including every one of my nukes, which I use on most bosses including Twintania, but WHM is so lackluster right now, because its power is largely focused into about as many spells/abilities as I have on one hand, and we are in less control of our own mana pools than bards are, which is completely stupid.

WHM does not need a buff. WHM's are plenty powerful and viable as is. WHM/SCH is so much better than SCH/SCH it's ridiculous. WHM's have no reason to fear for their raid spots at all. In fact, we are still a more priority spot than SCH's are for most stuff due to Holy and having the upper hand in AOE healing. I also think WHM's make a more independent healer than SCH's do, but thats my opinion.
What does WHM need? WHM needs to spread its power out to its other abilities, which means to lose power in some areas (particularly Regen, Divine Seal, and AOE healing), and have it become spread out in the form of extra tools, quality of life adjustments, and proper class synergy.

I always knew things would turn out in our current situation of SCH becoming more dominant over WHM. The big reason comes from proper scaling and design. SCH has a real secondary stat to scale off of, its mana regen scales, adlo scales extremely well, and pet fixes are an obvious priority for SE as an entire class, half of the healing roles, and thousands of people depend on it to function properly. As a result, SCH starts off a little weaker, but will become vastly superior. Imagine SCH vs. WHM in around ilvl120 gear, by then if nothings changed (which things most likely will be), I could see WHM being pretty obsolete if things continued down on this road. (WHM will probably get some kind of change soon enough).

I personally find SCH to be a pretty ideal healer. It has a unique playstyle, clutch heals, defining features, good scaling, plenty of tools and options, incorporates some decisionmaking, etc. WHM doesn't really have any of that.

/rant