Quote Originally Posted by KarstenS View Post
As long as you use regular base heal, you're right. But when the whitemage starts to use the other skills, his burst blows you away till he runs out of mana.
If you seriously think this is true, you're deluding yourself.

For straight up spam throughput healing, WHM has Divine Seal (30% +heal for 15 secs every 60), PoM (not sure how much speed but it's only 10s every 300), Cure II (650 cure potency), and, potentially, Regen (150 every 3 sec).

So, assuming Cure II spam with Regen active, you're getting 775 cPot/GCD (650 + 150 * 2.5 / 3). With Divine Seal, you're getting 1007.5 (775 * 1.3) 25% of the time, which gives you 833.125 cPot/GCD (775 * 4.3 / 4) on average, over time.

A SCH has Lustrate (3 25% hp heals every 60s that puts you on a 1 sec CD) and Adloquium (300 pot heal w/ 300 pot shield that turns into a 450 w/ 900 on a crit). Eos brings along Embrace (300 cure pot every 3 sec) which gets beefed up significantly by Rouse (40% +heal from pet for 20s every 90), as well as Fey Illumination (20% +heal for everyone, pet included, for 20s every 120).

Assuming a 20% crit chance (crit stacked SCH), a SCH is going to be getting 660 cPot/GCD (300 + 300 * 1.2) from Adloq on top of 250 (300 * 2.5 / 3) from Eos. Before factoring in CDs (or Lustrate), the 910 cPot/GCD that SCH is managing is already nearly as much as a WHM gets while DS is active and more than they get with it over time. Rouse brings the pet heal up to 350 (250 * 1.4) while it's active or 272.22 (250 * (1 + .4 * 2 / 9) on average. Fey Illumination increases their existing cPot/GCD (660 and 272.22) to 792 and 326.66, or 1118.66 total, which ends up being 963.29 (1118.66 * (1 + .2 * 2 / 12)) cPot/GCD over time. And this is *without factoring in Lustrate* (it also ignores stacking buffs and only considered Fey Illumination for the active CD scenario).

So, let's review (WHM v SCH).

Straight up spam w/ no CDs: 775 v. 910; advantage SCH (17.4% stronger)
Straight up spam w/ CDs active: 1007.5 v. 1118.66; advantage SCH (11% stronger)
Straight up spam w/ CDs averaged: 833.125 v. 963.29; advantage SCH (15.6% stronger)

*without factoring in Lustrate*

SCH is the de facto better ST healer. Without even bringing Aetherflow into consideration, SCH is stronger than WHM. Hell, a SCH just doing Physick spam (400 + 250 = 650) is throwing out the same cPot/GCD as a WHM doing Cure II spam (650), which is a pretty strong clue that, as soon as the SCH starts using their *stronger* heals and larger toolbox, they're going to be doing a helluva lot better. The only possible way for a WHM to be better at ST healing than a SCH is if the SCH is letting their pet languish while simultaneously not using their Aetherflow stacks *or* CDs.

Healing speedruns is way more easy with a whitemage than with scholar.
No, it's not. For Bray HM speed runs, the healer of preference is SCH explicitly because it provides stronger ST heals. The only reason that WHM was preferred for WP speed runs was because of Holy, which allowed them to assist in nuking down the packs faster; it had nothing to do with their healing.

When there would be no healdebuff coming with deathsentence, Twintania would be also much easier with 2 whitemages.
The most dangerous part of t5 (from a healing perspective) is the baseline damage from Death Sentence (there's at least 2 GCDs between DS and Twintania's next attack). The only tool that a WHM has to mitigate that is Stoneskin. A SCH has Adloquium, which is a helluva lot stronger, as well as weaker Stoneskin. Furthermore, as previously mentioned, a SCH using its pet and Physick will throw the same exact amount of cPot/GCD as a WHM spamming Cure II so, preshielding aside, SCH is still stronger. Lustrate just speeds up the recovery that would be significantly slower otherwise.

If you want to make claims that the collective experiences of the forums are wrong, you better bring in more than anecdotal evidence, especially when you're straight up wrong with most of it (saying WHM is preferred for speed runs, lol).