Quote Originally Posted by Rivxkobe View Post
As far as I can tell none of the people who said SCH is the best actually main SCH. They were just stating the obvious. WHM and AST are interchangeable in end game raids while SCH takes up the other slot. While they are all good for different reasons, SCH is the best (even if minimally) overall.
SCH has the slot for endgame raiding sinply because it's currently the only healing job that branches from a DPS class. There's absolutely no question when it comes to that. However, ask a SCH to main heal a fight like A3S and you'll watch them struggle. From a pure healing perspective, SCH has the short stick simply because they rely on cooldowns and stack management to catch up to a healing potency both WHM and AST have in their GCD. If you're going to use raids as examples, you may want to say that SCH is the best off-healer and it's mandatory because the current meta/fight design favors having an off-healer in the party instead of having two main healers or simply a solo healer. Change the way fights are designed and you'll see SCHs vanishing from end game content; in fact, by adding fights that require only one healer you'll basically see WHMs in learning parties and ASTs in farm parties. The OP was asking about healing and didn't specify any particular context.