Quote Originally Posted by MoroMurasaki View Post
Oh yes, it's clearly a thread from a WHM. I bet it says my main class is WHM - oh, wait, nope that says RDM. But I bet if you look me up all my parses are for WHM because it's what I raid on and that's why I care about the healer imbalance- oh, wow... that's all RDM too, huh?

I care about this because SCH is overpowered and overrepresented in Alphascape specifically. The growing problem with healer balance all expansion is coming to a head in the final raid tier where there is no reason to take WHM and even less of a reason to bring a Noct AST.

I'm sure it's easier to dismiss criticism as someone who doesn't know what they're talking about but it doesn't take a SCH main to evaluate the function of SCH any more than it takes a BRD main to see that BRD is in a similar position.

Keep whining SCH mains, I'll keep trying to divert the WHM who complain about AST to the true impediment to healer balance and right now that's your class.
Sch "IS" OP, but not for the reasons you are presenting. Sch's having the highest represented number on FFlogs does not make it OP, it just means it is preferred healer. Even if they nerfed sch to the ground to the point it becomes literally unplayable and the only healer compositions you see are WHM/AST, nobody would say WHM/AST are OP just because they make up 100% of the representation on FFLogs.

So why is it sch's are preferred? It's simply because sch fits the role better than a noct ast, and in turn a diurnal ast fits the role better than a whm especially in this tier. When one performs better than the other, people naturally prefer it. This is why you see less WHM/AST compared with WHM/SCH combinations, and because ast is better suited to filling in the role of regen healer in this tier (all thanks to their healing kit), you will naturally see more of AST/SCH pairs compared with WHM/SCH again. Add to the fact (as someone has already mentioned before) that sch's and ast's have great synergies with their own abilities and to each other where else WHM doesn't even have synergy to itself and you can see how those numbers came about on FFlogs.

If a tyre on your vehicle suffers from puncture you bring it to a workshop to get it fixed. You do not go and puncture the remaining tyres all so that one tyre doesn't feel left out.