Lustrate being an ability and not a spell is the stupidest thing in the universe

[SuperZay]

WHM and AST get destroyed if they get silenced or have to burn big cooldowns just to save people/themselves.

But SCH don't have these 'big' cooldowns, which isn't exactly 'big', Essential Dignity is on 15 sec cooldown for example. Divine Bension is 20 sec, or 10 sec with 3 lilies, Assize and Bene recharge fast too. You can't silence them either. I still think WHM is superior healer because of more varied abilities (only WHM has heals, regens, shields and mitigation through Protect).

[Praesul]

But SCH don't have these 'big' cooldowns, which isn't exactly 'big', Essential Dignity is on 15 sec cooldown for example. Divine Bension is 20 sec, or 10 sec with 3 lilies, Assize and Bene recharge fast too. You can't silence them either. I still think WHM is superior healer because of more varied abilities (only WHM has heals, regens, shields and mitigation through Protect).

You force those abilities out, but you can't force anything out of a SCH. Lustrate is what they're going to do anyway, they don't need anything else. Once bene is on cooldown, and protect, WHMs and their party are vulnerable. SCH and their party are never vulnerable.

Oh and don't misunderstand, I think WHM is still a really good healer, but SCH is just way out of line.

[Kisama]

Don't worry, I'm sure they'll fix it in the mid-season balance update

[Kyani]

I still think WHM is superior healer because of more varied abilities (only WHM has heals, regens, shields and mitigation through Protect).

It should say a lot about White Mage that they broke Scholar with an un-tested "nerf", and White Mage is still competitive with a functionally broken class. Scholar might be a little better, but if the change gets reverted (which it really should), WHM will need large nerfs to bring it in line with the other two.