(Serious) White Mage and Scholar are equally balanced.

[Parawill]

Depending on what the SCH is healing, this is an exaggeration. Besides, why waste 6 Lustrates like that? Rather just let Eos do Fey+WD and Succor.

Yes, a Scholar could do that but like you said, it was for the sake of comparison. Scholars are amazing single target burst healers and White Mages are amazing AoE burst healers.

That's like saying the SCH would have restored a Single target to max before WHM could get out a Cure II. >w>

It is fair in a way. There are situations that shift resource management into catching up in heals vs. time/damage output. If you need the strength of a Cure II, Lustrate is generally better unless you have the time to cast the Cure II, but I understand what you mean. :-) I do admit that I left my post way too open for interpretation. I should have been more specific.

Anyways, I think Vlad thinks Lustrate is "the greatest heal" in the game as its an off-GCD heal that sees frequent use. I believe it's a great heal in how it helps catches up on healing between GCDs, which effectively puts a healer one or two GCDs above in healing. Though great, the Lustrate vs. Benediction comparison isn't fair either--haha. Reason being is that Benediction's main use is to reset healing to neutral* so that your heals can now match with the damage output. That's why it has such a high cooldown! Though people question why a tank would fall so low on health and the answer to that would be progression and/or mistakes.

Now I'm not going to go in-depth here as I see no point, but the way I see Scholars vs. White Mage is that they're both amazing, but the preference over one another is very situational.

Anyways... I think I'm just going to keep reading now since a certain someone is throwing statements and not backing it up with facts, theories and whatnot. *sigh*


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*The most basic way I look at healing through damage output vs. time until next damage vs. healing output vs. time until next heal. This is broken down into three levels: positive, neutral and negative.

Positive = Healing GCD is above damage output. This means you're ahead in healing and do not need to use cooldowns to "catch up on healing."

Neutral = You're head-to-head against damage. If you're not prepared for a tank buster or group raid-buster (a.k.a you need cooldowns and shields), then you may fall into the negatives in healing.

Negatives = Damage output is greater than your healing output. A great example is when you're trying to heal in Cleric Stance. *laugh*