If we nerfed SCH's DPS rotation to practically mirror WHM/AST

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You need to understand that SCH in itself wasn't OP. Rather AST/SCH was the best overall healer comp by a rather significant margin (assuming all players were at a reasonably even and high skill level). WHM/AST was generally a significant downgrade in healer DPS whilst WHM/SCH gave up that oh so delicious balance card, not to mention both alternatives had to deal with WHM's comparative MP starvation at the time.

No. SCH was really OP in HW, like REALLY OP. They had insanely MP efficient everything; damage, aoe, healing. 4 mitigation cooldowns that helped immensely in progression, especially learning A3S and A4S. On top of some really powerful OGCDs. You need to understand AST was trash at the start of HW and probably has the biggest buff list in the game if you look through patch notes from 3.0 to 3.4 where the balance team decided it was time to destroy all common sense and logic and make the Balance card ascend into godhood.