What if, healers are not healers?

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Scholars more than any other healing class are always expected to be the dps/healer. I am told that this is not because the other two classes are better healers, but because scholar has better damage dealing potential because of the dots left on target while the pet can heal...

I regrettably have to inform you that among all healers SCH has the worst DPS potency spells. Even Aero from WHM which they don't even use it all time (only with combine with fluid aura or when have to move or oGCD) becomes a valuable Dot for SCH which the SCH should keep it on boss near 100% uptime together with all their other DOTs. Beside even when you go as WHM/AST the main healer should dps too. It's wrong to think only the off-heal have to dps. Two healer should balance their heal/dps time.

The reason why people tell you SCH is a dps healer, is not because of their "better" dps tool or weaker heal (have SCH ever considered weak? ), but because SCH is BUILT for dps while healing/mitigating/supporting. You as SCH:
- have more potential instant heal skills than whm/ast: Lustrate/Indom (which you can turn off cleric and cast them immediately),
- can cast embrace/whispering down and other pet skills while in cleric,
- can put out sacred soil, virus, E4E, all while in cleric.
Those reasons make it perfectly for SCH to stay in cleric and doing most of their jobs. Heck, only physick, adlo, succor require you to stay out of cleric stance to cast them. Then tell me, why do you want to stay out of cleric stance all the time on SCH while more than half of your "healing" kit do not require you to?

If you think SCH should heal only and stay away from cleric cause you have so many amazing spells like you listed, then, you are playing sch wrong :|