Quote Originally Posted by Niroken View Post
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I briefly answered this question in a previous post/forum. There are all kinds of compositions that offer all kinds of niche utilities. Not every composition lends to the same advantage.

While in general ppl want and like the idea of getting the "best comp" to increase party dps! However those higher party dps composition tend to be less forgetting for mistakes and dealing with uncertainties.

When you're first starting out you may want to pick a SCH/WHM comp over AST/anything, b/c WHM still offers the best consistent AOE heals in game and sch covers all single target healing and still has all the healing utilities in game mostly used. In addition you might bring a mnk for 20% mantra; a PLD for consistent reliable MTing, a smn/rdm for additional raises, and a brd/mch for tp/mp. Now would such a party be the best composition for HIGH DPS??? probably not...but it would be most forgiving for progression; and even after progression it would be more secure for players unable to reliable perform at the high efficiency TOP DPS RAID COMP might require!

At some point we might have to relent to the idea that SE actually wants WHM to be the easiest healer to play but at the same time, the least rewarding healer to play since it's so forgiving!