Quote Originally Posted by FalalaMaru View Post
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.
The circle of buffs only leads to inadvertent and indirect content nerfs. After buffing WHM and AST let's say WHM comes out way ahead of the other healers. By your logic that means we then have to buff AST and SCH to match. Before you know it you've repeated the end of HW with BRD and MCH. I would rather they not do this with the healers which is why I think WHM and SCH need to be brought in line with AST. For WHM that means buffing either it's pDPS or adding rDPS to compensate, for SCH that means forcing some more GCD healing and/or reducing its pDPS or rDPS contribution.

This isn't rocket science.

As for DRK being worse off than WHM - sure. Not talking about DRK though, talking about healer issues.