Can WHM survive on pure healing alone? (Looking into 4.0)

[FoxyAreku]

On WHM+AST compositions, WHM is the off healer.

Probably the weirdest thing I've heard on this forum in awhile, no offense but that's certainly out of the norm. If a white mage focuses on DPSing as much as say, a scholar does, they'll be out of MP before the fight is half done most of the time. And noct is made to get shields up quickly for mitigation and has much better MP management, which lets them dance in and out of cleric to put shields up where needed and go back into throwing malefics. Also white mage can keep everyone topped through most fights with very little effort as a main healer should, noct takes several casts to do such a thing and also has no way to maintain HoTs on tanks and injured dps, what with collective being their only one.

A shield-spec is never acceptable as a raid main healer unless there is no other option.

[mp-please]

Probably the weirdest thing I've heard on this forum in awhile, no offense but that's certainly out of the norm. If a white mage focuses on DPSing as much as say, a scholar does, they'll be out of MP before the fight is half done most of the time. And noct is made to get shields up quickly for mitigation and has much better MP management, which lets them dance in and out of cleric to put shields up where needed and go back into throwing malefics. Also white mage can keep everyone topped through most fights with very little effort as a main healer should, noct takes several casts to do such a thing and also has no way to maintain HoTs on tanks and injured dps, what with collective being their only one.

A shield-spec is never acceptable as a raid main healer unless there is no other option.

None taken but you're forgetting one simple fact. Noct AST is not a SCH.
And i'm aware of WHM mp issues, i've pointed them before on how WHM on full burst can only keep dps for 7-8mins without external help. That's where possible ewers and ballad on jumps come in to help for the remaining 2-4 mins of the fight (usually fights last 10-12 mins, afterwards enrage timer kicks in). Hopefully we'll see this solved with 4.0 combat revamp.