Quote Originally Posted by Nihility View Post
The general feeling for a while now is scholar will be the required healer and astrologian and white mage will be fighting for the second spot.
Scholar just brings too many things to a group that other healers just can't even compare to

the only thing scholar lacked is raw healing potential and the expansion is giving them exactly that.
Ehm. With the new abilities, I am not even mildly concerned about WHM's future.

For content where party composition matters, you're still going to want one pure HP/S machine, and one healer that can shield. SCH will be better at raw HP/S than before, but only at the cost of their shields. AST, according to press that play tested, just doesn't have a very strong HP/S throughput (but full healing SCH + shielding AST should be viable). I'm betting that WHM will still have the strongest raw heals (and, you know, WHMs are getting lustrate and stuff).