Try to predict Nerf/Buff/QoL of 4.2 Healer Edition

[HyoMinPark]

i hate SCH becoming more and more useless at healing, forcing me to parce ~4k DPS in raids with extremelly boring DPS rotation, instead of shielding group and GCD healing. Right now SCH using GCD healing more than very few times during raid considered a scrub. Although i do love dealing damage during raids, i feel like has been castrated since mid HW, when scholar was still good at shielding. now shielding\healing either needed only occasionaly (for pro groups), or used in casual raid groups, because main healer isn't as pro. but for that better take AST, since his shields much better, while keeping utility to the group.
I know nobody will change route SCH has taken now, but at least add some more utility (more USEFUL buffs and rework Fey Union, maybe to tether actually buffing tethered person, instead of providing HOT, fit mostly for dungeons and utterly useless in raids).

To be fair, you should only be shielding/healing when necessary anyways. Anything more is an overheal, and a waste of your MP, not to mention unnecessary aggro generation because overhealing generates more aggro than just regular healing. As far as I know, that has been the case for a while, too. I would honestly consider that being a ‘norm’—because you should never heal more than necessary.

Take this example: I was doing a V2S learning this past weekend, and my co-healer (Diurnal AST because I was on SCH to get in some SCH practice in Savage) was at 800 MP by the first Gravitational Manipulation. 800 MP.. Her healing rotation involved: 6 Aspected Benefics (on the tank), 3 Aspected Helios (refreshed before they expired), 5 Helios, 3 Benefic IIs, and 3 Benefic; maybe like one or two Malefic IIIs and Combust II. She had HoTs ticking the entire time, would use Helios any time just a few people took damage, and was pushing a 60% overheal. There were no raises. 800 MP. AND WE DID NOT HAVE A BARD OR MCH TO PROVIDE HER MP IN THIS GROUP.. This repeated for 4 pulls until the party disbanded because we couldn’t get past -100g (I think we hit tank/healer Long Drop once with 2 people alive).

I feel a little confused about your post, to be honest, though...especially after talking with you in your rDPS thread about the best healer comps.