WHM Appreciation

[Cynfael]

People love to ignore the developers intentions:

Not nearly as much as you love to assume the developers' intentions.

1) WHM = Raw healing, and you're given plenty of warning when to cast when a Boss AOE comes up. If you've been keeping everyone nearly full HP the entire time like you're supposed to, then you time it just as the AOE lands and nobody dies.
2) SCH = Shielding, again you're given plenty of warning when to cast when the Boss AOE comes up. Unlike the WHM, you can throw the shielding out several seconds in advance and then have the fairy stack healing effects if you're using Eos.

You just gave examples supporting the position with which it appeared that you were about to disagree....

Both Jobs need to anticipate damage to be successful. No, you obviously don't do this on WHM by dropping healbombs before damage has occurred; what it means is what you describe: you time your heals to coincide with telegraphed damage. This is WHM "pre-emptive" healing. What most of us are counseling people not to do is to ignore patterns and act like it's a surprise whenever someone loses HP, which is what less skilled healers tend to do.