Welp, I think this is a good thread to come back from my vacation with.

I'm not going to say that there aren't problems in the relationship between WHM and AST, there are. If AST is sitting at 100% (a good place in balance) WHM is around 80%... but that difference is eclipsed by SCH being at 150%.
  1. Chain Stratagem is consistent, strong and synergizes amazingly with the crit-meta.
  2. Critlo/spreadlo are the strongest shields you can have and have only benefited from the role action changes in 4.4 - they can now be deployed off of a WAR with Convo and Minne on by a SCH using Largesse and neither of those classes sacrifices anything to do so.
  3. Indom is perhaps the single best heal in the game. It costs almost nothing, is more flexible than ES by a mile and is instant.
  4. Their pDPS is ridiculous by comparison and they have unlimited weaving opportunities with basically no need to clip.

Essentially the only time SCH is disadvantaged in any way is in prolonged AoE healing situations which honestly should be taken care of more by their regen-healer partner anyway.

This is not balance within the healer community. No one healer should provide the best pDPS and (more often than not) rDPS while also having such a flexible defensive kit that can easily be tweaked to handle almost any situation.

Thoughts?