Which job to pick healing

[Gemina]

What I would do is get one of those rotational cork-boards, or build one in a circular fashion. Pie it into three sections for each healer, spin it, and then throw a dart at it. Bam! There's your healer.

If you miss the board entirely, well....

[AnotherPerson]

AST: The meta pick, but also the ruined one in words of people, that lost its soul with the patch and also the most complicated of the 3. Also the most used healer

To be fair i cant really be sure of who to pick, i dont think i want AST because everyone uses it and i want variety in my FC, but the other 2 dont seem too compelling. Should i just wait for the 4th healer or are the other 2 redeemable and fun enough to be played?

AST might be a meta pick, but it if by far not the most used healer if anything. I'd say I see more WHMs and SCH than ASTs mainly because people dislike the card system that much.

I wouldn't say SCH is the worst healer because it does well in healing with its shielding kit. In terms of the three healers, it's not exactly the best pick for dungeon runs because it is a shield healer - and thus focuses more on increasing survival rate on big attacks with extra HP as a buffer. It excels in bossing instead. SCH's dps kit did get gutted pretty bad though, but the same can be said for all healers this expansion.

Honestly, play whoever you want. From what I hear, you already decided on picking SCH. Just give it a go before deciding if you don't want to continue tbh. If you dislike it, try another healer or just wait for a 4th.

[Truen]

AST might be a meta pick, but it if by far not the most used healer if anything. I'd say I see more WHMs and SCH than ASTs mainly because people dislike the card system that much.

I wouldn't say SCH is the worst healer because it does well in healing with its shielding kit. In terms of the three healers, it's not exactly the best pick for dungeon runs because it is a shield healer - and thus focuses more on increasing survival rate on big attacks with extra HP as a buffer. It excels in bossing instead. SCH's dps kit did get gutted pretty bad though, but the same can be said for all healers this expansion.

Honestly, play whoever you want. From what I hear, you already decided on picking SCH. Just give it a go before deciding if you don't want to continue tbh. If you dislike it, try another healer or just wait for a 4th.

What dps kit? We have ONE spell we spam 80% of the time now. Yoshi murdered the Scholar just the same he murdered Seline. RIP my sweet fairy, Square Enix always hated you.

[Comfort]

I started the expansion as WHM but leveled all 3. I was SCH main before this but didn't like the changes and hadn't really enjoyed AST before.

I cleared savage 1-4 in reasonable time and started progress on TEA but the raid team stopped after a few weeks mostly due to some irl commitments for some players so I have played pretty casually since then.

Now I have changed to main AST after playing it as it is more interesting than WHM. I still don't like how they changed SCH so that's still a no go for me. Its not that its bad it just that it does not feel as fluid for me anymore (likely not given it enough play time I suppose but changes shouldn't be that drastic that I feel this way, its only personal though! It might feel fine to others!).

I would encourage you to try them all honestly. Potd can give you the 1-60 experience of them though all 3 get some really important and awesome parts of their toolkit after this.

[-Magnai-]

To get the basics down, go with CNJ/WHM first, then once you've gotten your niche I'd suggest trying out AST next. SCH really be wildin' tho ngl

[AnotherPerson]

What dps kit? We have ONE spell we spam 80% of the time now. Yoshi murdered the Scholar just the same he murdered Seline. RIP my sweet fairy, Square Enix always hated you.

That's the joke. :'( Hopefully next expansion changes this.

[Noctisnine]

I would go scholar over the other 2 any day. White mage is boring and astro is extremely hard to master. Scholar has powerfull shield, and it has a good variety of skills.

[Averax]

-WHM is good for beginners. It's mechanically simple and desirable for their MP efficiency.
-SCH is a good all-arounder, it has lots of OGCD heals and nice utility. Has good MP economy with the return of energy drain. It is of intermediate difficulty, generally a nice go-to when you get bored of the simplicity of WHM.
-AST is technically the best healer right now iirc (numerically speaking), but it's also the busiest, and most complex. Has a lot of micromanagement of buffs. It has the worst MP economy of the healers, so you need to make sure to meld extra piety

[MPNZ]

All of the healers are great picks for light content consumption, but have like several issues when ascending their skill ceilings. WHm can just get seriously boring. AST has extremely minimal rewards and value per action, controller issues result in an extremely high APM and can result in carpal tunnel, and MP issues that will persist into the higher levels. SCH, totally not something that I will like play often, but it's literally just like WHM with barriers in lieu regens, which makes it like super boring as well if you can like make the pet bar functional.

But, in like casual play, the main differences are:

WHM: A pure healer design with really high dmg output and crowd control and zero MP issues, and it's a regen type hlr. Super friendly for beginners

Sch: A hlr that's focused on oops prevention using shield spells with a token/stack resource for extra healing and dmg reduction utilities. It's also a pet class that uses it as a sub-hlr

AST: A flexible high-speed caster with a lot of flexibility and MP issues. It's secondary function is currently to buff everyone's dmg individually by a small amount or by a 6-12% buff at later levels for the entire party. It's really active to an extreme, so it's not the best to like start out with