Does anyone else find healers DPS impact on group ironic?

[Elusana_Celah]

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Typical procedure is that scholars are allowed to do a bulk amount of DPS while white mages with their huge healing power solo heal certain phases or parts of phases and scholar will jump in to mitigate when necessary. This is pretty useful. I mean on my white mage I'm practically solo healing phase 1 of T13, solo healing phase 2 of T13 when add is down, can and do solo healing phase 3 during adds before Twin. Solo healing most of T9, most of T10, much of T11. Scholars step in to mitigate.

In fact the irony is that many of those solo heal cases in the coils, a good white mage can just do the whole place by themselves while you grab another DPS instead of having that scholar lol. But scholars can also solo heal, it's just that scholars run into difficulty pulling the group out of bad situations where people are taking too much damage that they shouldn't be which makes white mages great for recovering derps or maybe you have 5 bennus in T12 cuz of poor DPS, scholars have difficult keeping up with the AE of phoenix if DPS is too low since whispering wind will not always be off cooldown, worst nightmare for scholar is party at 1000hp, whispering wind + fey illumination on cooldown lol, succor about 6-9 times before phoenix blasts party AGAIN.

However, I am also concerned with white mages viability with the new heal class. We will see what white mages bring to the table with their new skillset eh?

Whm is the superior DPS ^^.
It's simply situational like all things. WHM and SCH are perfect compliments to each other in every way and are both very valuable.
Besides, it's the player - not the job.

I parse higher on my white mage than scholar, literally around 350DPS but scholar is around 200ish. But you can burn around 3500 or more MP per minute on white mage, pop shroud, shroud is on a 2 minute cooldown so you burn through another 3500 MP and you got no shroud... bards can't keep MP song up so meh. White mages have a tough time with MP, I've gotten phases 1-3 down in T13 to where my MP levels are good but if I started spamming stone and DoTs I would be begging for bard assistance pretty quickly. I can add a little DPS, sure, but you gotta stop you can't just go deep into DPS rotation carelessly like you can with a scholar. Scholar's MP always full.