A few ideas to improve the WHM from a SCH player

[Alindra]

Player skill has nothing to do with a toolset. If two players take damage at the same time on a whm my choice is to heal target A then heal target B. In a sticky situation I may try a swiftcast or bene if it is up.

Though the only place this would really be an issue is 4-man content, cos in 8-man you would have a SCH or another WHM to heal the 2nd person. And in 4-man, it's probably ok to let the dps wait for a heal (since it was probably their fault they took damage anyways). If not, you have 3 AoE heals to pick from.

[Avette]

Though the only place this would really be an issue is 4-man content, cos in 8-man you would have a SCH or another WHM to heal the 2nd person. And in 4-man, it's probably ok to let the dps wait for a heal (since it was probably their fault they took damage anyways). If not, you have 3 AoE heals to pick from.

Regarding "letting the other guy deal with it" as a solution, I think it would be better to focus on improving the individual toolkit to have better actions per minute. The point of the original argument was that scholars already have a diverse toolkit, whereas the white mage struggles to respond in time due to constraints on their activity caused by being singularly responsible for all their own healing output. In other words, you're still finishing your original cast, and so am I, but I put the fairy on the other guy at the same time so I win.

[Eriane]

Though the only place this would really be an issue is 4-man content, cos in 8-man you would have a SCH or another WHM to heal the 2nd person. And in 4-man, it's probably ok to let the dps wait for a heal (since it was probably their fault they took damage anyways). If not, you have 3 AoE heals to pick from.

The situation is not meant to be taken literally but rather to illustrate the fact that whm lack actions per gcd. It applies to more than one extra target needing a heal.

Even if you say, well there are no situations where a sch would need to adlo the tank, while embracing a dps, and throw a lustrate on the offtank (in the time it took the whm to cast cure 2), it doesn't change the reality of the situation. I can.

The whm has to either use a gcd to heal a single target or the entire raid (not counting cure 3 as the range comes into play). And therin lies the problem of threat and mana management, you have to either try to heal with cheap heals one gcd at a time or waste chunks of mp healing half the raid. Yes sch does get better mana regen and free heals but also the option of making smarter choices when less than the entire raid needs healing or various amounts of healing and/or topoff.

I think that medica 2 was changed to help address this but the burst heal isn't necessary. I actually do think that keeping it a small hot while removing the burst heal and lowering the mana cost proportionally would help.