What is the be Healer?

[CBellz]

Hopefully the next tank/healing introduced will be an off-tank/healer and people will stop with the SCH obsession.

This sounds more than just a little salty. There is no obsession with SCH. People are just pointing out that it's far and away the most irreplacable healer. Look at how many hypothetical situations you had to introduce to present a world in which SCH is useless. You said that a SCH would be useless if you removed DPS entirely from the equation, but the fact is that DPS drives the design of this game's meta. You can't use hypotheticals to dispute SCH's value, because the reality is that in this game's current situation, SCH is king. I'm going to go through each of your points.

1. Healing requirements are catered to SCH. No, they're based around allowing all healers to contribute DPS with good GCD management. SCH just does this best.

2. SCH isn't brought for its healing capabilities. False. I would argue that SCH is one of the best single target healers due to its burst capability with Lustrate. In A2S progression, SCH was untouchable not only for its aoe DPS capabilities, but for its reactive single target healing capabilities as well. In a fight like A2S, where damage is not entirely predictable during progression, few tools can match Lustrate. In fact, many fights are based around burst healing, in which case it's very hard to top indom and lustrate.

3. SCH doesn't have many healer tools distinguishing it from other healers. Again, false. The fairy itself is costless in terms of both MP and GCD management. It allows a SCH to heal two targets simultaneously with ease, something only an AST can come close to, and even then only at a rate of once every ninety seconds.

[Houston009]

This sounds more than just a little salty. There is no obsession with SCH. People are just pointing out that it's far and away the most irreplacable healer. Look at how many hypothetical situations you had to introduce to present a world in which SCH is useless. You said that

^THIS so much this.