Quote Originally Posted by Raestloz View Post
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You have a few good points but you are glorifying the SCH and not really thinking about the WHM's strengths to the end.

Like, what does Fey Illumination working for everybody and Divine Seal working for the WHM only have to do with the WHM being inferior to the SCH? In practice, the WHM is getting a 50% healing boost and the SCH is getting a 20% boost, if both are active. Divine Seal is super good and on a 1m CD. You can have 11 ticks of Divine Sealed Regen up per minute. That is, 33 seconds out of 60 seconds. (Dots and HoTs being on a 3s timer per tick, refreshing Regen at the end of DS). On top of the Cure 1'ing and Freecuring, this is some good maintenance healing.

Ignoring the use of Fey Illumination and assuming a WHM uses a few Cures during their Divine Seal used on cooldown, on top of maximizing their DS'd Regen uptimes, they're looking at about 620 potency of highly mana efficient healing without doing a single Cure 2 outside of Freecures. (With average Freeproc rates, and with the average Regen potency being 174.5 if 11/20 ticks are DS'd and 9/20 'normal', per minute). Scholars can maintenance heal at about 655-660 potency (Physick + Embrace). Yes, 655-660ish, not 700, because while Embrace is listed as 300 potency, it actually is in the 255-260 range. Assuming you Rouse on cooldown, that comes closer to 690 potency over time. Not a drastic difference in mana usage or potencies, considering the other excels in ST healing anyway.

Yes, I know Scholars have Lustrates, Adloquium and all the goods, but so does WHM have the on-demand healing. Whispering Dawn is good but it can be up 1/3 of the, not on demand all the time. Yes, a SCH's shields get wasted less than a WHM's heals even when overhealing happens, but guess what, a WHM has their godly 18% stoneskin, too, that they can cast instead of a healing spell.