Quote Originally Posted by Yhximott View Post
The actual number means nothing. The point is if the SCH goes over by 1 or 1 million it doesn't all go to waste unlike the WHM.
This highly varies on context. If you apply a galvanized on someone who would never fully benefit from it, it's just as bad as overhealing. It's not like you can compare Adloquium with more direct healing spells either: While a scholar may choose to cast Adloquium on someone with full health, it makes absolutely no sense for a white mage to cast Cure (II) on that same person. Just as you don't normally spam Succor to top entire groups off.

Quote Originally Posted by Yhximott View Post
WHM is marketable now because it has the only M-DEF passive. There's a place for WHM and a place for SCH. AST is not mentioned because IT DOESN'T EXIST IN OUR CONTENT YET. As such, data cannot be collected on it. Only WHM and SCH can be evaluated, and their weaknesses identified. WHM has more weaknesses, so it needs valuable skills to make up for them.
That's your opinion. In a previous post I've mentioned otherwise.
As for it "needs more valuable skills to make up", they do get some: more damage abilities. So this draws back to the mechanic problem: Accuracy - which I've been re-addressing over and over.

Quote Originally Posted by Yhximott View Post
Weaker by a margin wide enough to put it's viability into question, especially if they're exacerbated in the expac.
And exactly what makes it weaker by a margin? Poor raid DPS as you mentioned? Accuracy? Overhealing?

Overhealing isn't a class fault, if you decide to use Cure II when a Cure would suffice, that's the player's fault - again
Accuracy is a problem because the cap cannot be achieved naturally and actually applies to both healers, even if Scholars suffer less from it as how the game handles some spells - again
White Mage's individual damage isn't necessarily worse than a Scholar's, accuracy is the bigger concern here - again and I'm pointing back at how Square-Enix decides to "patch" this with more damage options which won't solve anything if the accuracy issue isn't addressed in HW.