sch has low heals? we mitigate damage

[Tranquil]

Virus lowers damage dealt for like, what, 6 secs?

10.

My SCH alone has Crit 1000 on a Ruin II on Cleric Stance with no food or party buffs.

I guess we're not playing the same game.

[Alkimi]

They put out more DPS in total because of the wide variety of DoTs they have compared to the Aero and Aero II of the WHM. And equipped with the blinding Ruin II, Bane to spread your DoTs to nearby enemies, and then Shadow Flare. A SCH does have massive damage out put and can make short work of Mobs. Sometimes adding a couple DoTs on the last percentages of health to a Boss in a fight can make a big difference and health make the win.

If you take all healing out of the equation then WHM actually has higher dps than SCH, both single target and AoE. With top gear pre 2.2 it was ~230 dps for WHM and ~215 for SCH if using all the abilities available to them. However the majority of SCH damage can be fired off quickly in the form of DoTs and left to work, so of course it works out in favour of the SCH when you actually have to heal people.

My SCH alone has Crit 1000 on a Ruin II on Cleric Stance

Maybe 400 at a push, 1000 is impossible on anything unless it has rare damage taken status effects on it

[Viviza]

Your HPS and MP levels aren't really important, provided that people aren't dying and you have MP to spare for emergencies.

That said, it may be the case that your healing style is dangerous, or that your co-healer (in a raid) is working too hard, and people are using numbers as a way of pointing this out to you. I haven't found the FF14 community to care at all about HPS, so it may be something worth considering.

[DantedmcVII]

Well no, i dont spam adlo, only on brayflox speeds and sch has been my main since early access heres a gameplay of me doing levi ex
http://youtu.be/LBCO5s8qYbw

Cant put it like link cause im on my cellphone

From watching the video, the thing that stood out to me is that you weren't really taking advantage of WD. You used it at the worst time (when the whm was using CureIII), you didn't use it at any point during the spumes, and it was on for like one tidal wave.

[Waltz_Beat]

Anybody who measures the ability of a healer by HPS (Healing per second) is just stupid. In this game heals need to be timed, especially because of the 2.5s GCD.

If you're running out of MP then that would be an issue to look at. As a SCH there is not much content in which you can run out of MP, assuming the DPS do there job.
Rezzing takes a lot of MP in this game, so if you find a lot of the dps are standing in AoEs thats somthing your raid leader should look at.
If nobody dies then you did your job well. Don't worry too much about it.

However, If your tank or other healer has problems with your style its important to talk to them about it.

[Manuka]

-snip-

Actually from that I can see a few bad habits you should try correcting; you're way way too conservative with Lustrates an sitting far too long on your Aether stacks while Aetherflow is off CD. From the start you held on to 3stacks of Aetherflow for two an a half minutes before using all 3 for energy drain. During that period there was plenty of opportunity to offload your stacks, like at 00:50-1:20 where the WHM was around 50% health while the Tank got chunked to about 30%. Then there was that situation at 4mins where the Bard an BLM (who died) sat at dangerous levels for like 5-10secs while you had Aetherflow off CD for the last min with no stacks on you for the last 20secs. Be heavily aware of your stacks and never coddle them waiting for a situation to arise, especially if it's about to come off CD, and most importantly don't treat Lustrate like Benediction. My general rule of thumb with Aetherflow is thus; By 30secs if I haven't used any stacks and things are fine I'll plop a Sacred Soil and if 30 secs later things are still fine I'll drop another Sacred Soil and Energy Drain then refresh. When it comes to Lustrate, use it when somebody dips below <70% of their bar an maybe follow up with an Adlo. Not only do you get the full benefit of Lustrate your adlo should top them off and give them a nice buffer for awhile. Speaking of topping off, a nice tip for when you want to top a tank off that doesn't have much damage is to cast Adlo or manually Embrace. This will help prevent double dipping from both healers and if you both happen to do it, the 50% shield+ health still provides better returns on your MP investment compared to a physick that overheals by 80%. I say this cause a good number of your early physicks just slipped away into the briny depths.

Another problem I noticed was that you weren't using Adloquium much, so I took the effort to tally your skill usage for the first 6mins. During that time you cast about 40 physick's and only 5 adlo's so an 8:1 ratio. You should try and double up on your adlo casts to get it around 4:1 or 5:1 because you're current style is neglecting an integral aspect of our kit and, no offense, performing more like a gimped WHM and unintentionally offloading much of the healing to your partner by doing this. Not only that but you are significantly reducing the chance of seeing Adlo crits which provide so much breathing room for both healers. To put it into perspective you cast 15 Succors and about 6 Stoneskins in that same period; take a third of those Succors, all those physick top-offs and all of those Stoneskins (never cast it mid-combat except for scripted mechanics where burst damage is incoming, as a base adlo shield is often stronger than SS) and turn them into Adlo's and you'll be golden.

Lastly like Dante said use your Fairy CD's more often, 60secs isn't long at all and it is pretty darn good.

[Delvish]

Pretty brave to put your play style up for review and critique. I know I have a super hard time managing Aetherflow stacks and WD, saving both of them for ohnoes moments unless I know a fight by heart when I need to use what at precisely the right time. It does open up the possibility for thorough but constructive criticism like what Manuka posted. Super detailed and not aggressive. I may have to look into doing this more myself.

[BinaryJack]

Actually from that I can see a few bad habits you should try correcting; you're way way too conservative with Lustrates an sitting far too long on your Aether stacks while Aetherflow is off CD. From the start you held on to 3stacks of Aetherflow for two an a half minutes before using all 3 for energy drain. During that period there was plenty of opportunity to offload your stacks, like at 00:50-1:20 where the WHM was around 50% health while the Tank got chunked to about 30%. Then there was that situation at 4mins where the Bard an BLM (who died) sat at dangerous levels for like 5-10secs while you had Aetherflow off CD for the last min with no stacks on you for the last 20secs. Be heavily aware of your stacks and never coddle them waiting for a situation to arise, especially if it's about to come off CD, and most importantly don't treat Lustrate like Benediction. My general rule of thumb with Aetherflow is thus; By 30secs if I haven't used any stacks and things are fine I'll plop a Sacred Soil and if 30 secs later things are still fine I'll drop another Sacred Soil and Energy Drain then refresh. When it comes to Lustrate, use it when somebody dips below <70% of their bar an maybe follow up with an Adlo. Not only do you get the full benefit of Lustrate your adlo should top them off and give them a nice buffer for awhile. Speaking of topping off, a nice tip for when you want to top a tank off that doesn't have much damage is to cast Adlo or manually Embrace. This will help prevent double dipping from both healers and if you both happen to do it, the 50% shield+ health still provides better returns on your MP investment compared to a physick that overheals by 80%. I say this cause a good number of your early physicks just slipped away into the briny depths.

Another problem I noticed was that you weren't using Adloquium much, so I took the effort to tally your skill usage for the first 6mins. During that time you cast about 40 physick's and only 5 adlo's so an 8:1 ratio. You should try and double up on your adlo casts to get it around 4:1 or 5:1 because you're current style is neglecting an integral aspect of our kit and, no offense, performing more like a gimped WHM and unintentionally offloading much of the healing to your partner by doing this. Not only that but you are significantly reducing the chance of seeing Adlo crits which provide so much breathing room for both healers. To put it into perspective you cast 15 Succors and about 6 Stoneskins in that same period; take a third of those Succors, all those physick top-offs and all of those Stoneskins (never cast it mid-combat except for scripted mechanics where burst damage is incoming, as a base adlo shield is often stronger than SS) and turn them into Adlo's and you'll be golden.

Lastly like Dante said use your Fairy CD's more often, 60secs isn't long at all and it is pretty darn good.

This sums your run up perfectly.
Mitigate more and heal less.
[insert applause for Manuka here]

[tOnni3]

Healer's job is to keep party alive until the fight end, only dumbs care what your heal per second is.

[Manuka]

-snip-

Yeah I've had the same issue of the "What if" shadow looming over me and held onto my CD's for far too long sometimes but if ya think about it, by holding onto all of your CD's for those 'oh god no' moments you're actually making the party vulnerable to those very situations by allowing the damage to slowly creep up on you. Honestly after I started to be more proactive with my CD's and using them consistently (even if badly) the difference in difficulty was night and day. SCH's have a ridiculous amount of invisible power rolled up in their kit that it's difficult to appreciate it until you start using it often. So just keep in mind, it's better to use a CD incorrectly and eek some benefit out of'em than save'em till s**t hits the fan and realize you already passed the point of no return. Granted, as I say that I still forget Virus exists sometimes ;-;

[insert applause for Manuka here]

/blush