Quote Originally Posted by galbsadi View Post
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.
I'll elaborate further, but it's those trade-offs and complications where the discussion prompted by the statement "SCH has more HPS than WHM" lies.

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.
Exactly.

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."
"And" is a bold word. "Or" is probably a better word.

I suppose by word of the statement, yes you're right. Stick a SCH and a WHM together and have them healspam, WHM will win. Generally when people make a statement like that though, they're talking about those very trade-offs you'd have to do research on to find. What are the HPS of two healers maximizing DPS, and thus minimizing HPS? Looking at 10th percentile, SCH wins here for instance. Can I correlate a low HPS with a high DPS? Not really, like you I don't have the data to support that theory because FFLogs itself doesn't offer that kind of data, or if it does it's not a feature I've personally found.