Quote Originally Posted by SaberMaxwell View Post
Are you able to cross reference those rankings with DPS rankings to check that white mages doing that level of HPS are also keeping up their DPS? Likewise with SCH?
I'm sure if somebody wanted to dig deep enough they could find where the trade-offs lie, but that's also where things get more complicated.

For example, just earlier this week I had somebody trying to talk down my parses as SCH on a run with a PUG that took a lot of avoidable damage and had unnecessary deaths....which naturally led to lower DPS numbers (but led to higher than normal HPS numbers). Conversely, had a run with mostly static members (as a warmup into EX trials for some that still need gear there)...and almost no avoidable damage was taken, leading to purple DPS parses...but much lower HPS ones.

So, it's possible, but that'd be a much deeper level of research than I have the time (or wherewithal) to partake in right now. The information I linked is all public, however, so anybody else is welcome to...but the point stands that WHM are both capable of significantly higher DPS numbers and significantly higher HPS numbers...which mind you, I'm not saying is a good or a bad thing....merely that it's false to say they're "lower DPS than SCH."