Quote Originally Posted by Lyrica_Ashtine View Post
But to the point; Scholars have a supportive healing role with the current meta and very likely will keep it in Heavensward. Especially when undergeared for content and/or progressing. I don't doubt any composition isn't viable, be it whm/ast, ast/sch or whm/sch. But scholars have, without doubt, an edge as supportive healer compared to White Mage and Astrologian. Astrologians have some affinity towards the role Scholars have with the current meta, but nowhere as good.
Someone must've been looking at the cards. How can we know that they have an edge as a supportive healer without first fully understanding and knowing what the Astrologian is bringing to the table? Yeah, ok, we've seen a few spells, but so far no potencies or anything else related to their toolkit.

Quote Originally Posted by Ghishlain View Post
As you have rightfully mentioned, a raw HPS isn't important, it's about having the HPS at the right times. With that being said, I do find something seriously disturbing about the fact that a Sch + EOS combination CAN output as much HPS as a WHM. WHMs biggest perceived boon is the ability to output HPS. If a SCH + Eos can do the same HPS as a WHM, there's something amiss. Keep in mind I was doing this HPS with SCH + Eos WHILE outputting 150+ DPS during a pre-P3 progression group pre-Echo. That speaks volumes about SCHs power level right there. If SCH can do 1.2K HPS AND 150+ DPS and a WHM can only do 1.2K HPS and 50+ DPS, that makes the SCH a better contributor to the party dynamic (when looking at purely raw numbers). It should be more like a SCH can do 1K HPS while outputting 150 DPS while a WHM should be able to output 1.4K HPS and go nuts in the healing department.
While true, do keep in mind that HPS is a misconceptualized value. HPS is near meaningless so long as the party has enough HP to survive whatever the next mechanic might be. Whether it comes from one or the other is also meaningless. I suppose the only way HPS may be useful is when it is compared to Overhealing. Even if a SCH can do 1.2k HPS with 150 DPS contributions, if they're overhealing by quite a bit, does it really matter? So long as your healers are working together as a team (which they should be), shenanigans could be had regardless.