SCH concern on DPS. Healers dps comparison

[Averax]

For single-target. Multi target it's vastly different.

For simplicities sake, let's assume that Shadowflare, Assize and Earthly Star (all on a 60 sec CD) are similary potency spells and can be removed from the Equation.

In 24 seconds and 4 targets, the damage will look as follows:
WHM: 6200 potency
AST: 5712 potency
SCH: 2870 potency.

For Dungeons, you do NOT want to be a SCH if you want to provide any sort of meaningful damage to your party. The difference simply isn't just a few hundred DPS, it's signficantly more than that.

In a perfect world with nobody taking damage, AST would be far surpassing SCH, but when you add the variable of damage taken by the tank/group, they probably get closer. Not to mention that gravity drains the MP rather quickly, and SCHs are going to have so much MP regen that they barely need to watch it. You assume that AST would be able to cast gravity perfectly for 24 straight seconds, which does not add up to me.

White Mage will probably dominate dungeon DPS in the future, thanks to holy (that stun), assize, aero iii, and thin air, but they need the damage output niche if they're to be considered over AST/SCH.

Also, consider first that there was a lot of mistranslation and miscommunication about the potencies. On top of the fact that nothing we have seen is final and is subject to change. So we'll know how things really are when early access starts