Quote Originally Posted by Rilifane View Post
The issue is less that WHM + SCH don't play well enough together because both have great tools for healing but rather AST playing far too well with both of them, making WHM + SCH pale in comparison to an AST + X duo.
WHM and SCH both less mobile than AST and have to pay opportunity cost for their oGCDs outside of dot refresh and ED Ruin II; something AST doesn't have to worry about with the free single weave after every Malefic.
Correct me if I'm misunderstanding but that sounds like AST is simply the superior healer, not only able to heal without dps loss but also heal enough to cover a fair bit of the co-healers share too? In the case of WhM/ScH the issue then is that there isn't an AST to shoulder the actual healing for free, so they can spam dps. While a WhM or ScH can shoulder extra healing, it takes a heavy toll on dps.

That sounds like bad design personally. Would it be better to extend the 1.5 sec cast time to Glare and Broil III too? There's the argument of homogenization or class identity, but clunkiness never seemed like a great identity for a class and they could differentiate in other ways. WhM in particular is incredibly immobile even compared to caster dps such as BLM and cannot avoid some clipping.