Can Healer Balance Survive a 4th Healer?

[AnotherPerson]

Actually, AST takes the crown in all categories. I'm not sure where the idea that WHM is the "heal powerhouse" or SCH is the "shield king" comes from when AST has free oGCD's, the strongest aoe heal in the game with Star, COpp and CU which are half the cd of Seraph, a far superior Plenary and Tetra and it loses the least potency for GCD heals. Not to mention its higher rDps and full mobility. This is why top raid comps are nearly always AST + Other.

Healer balance is fairly terrible right now. They gave AST everything.

Didn't you know? AST gets nerfed to Oblivion every beginning of the expansion and will eventually catch up a couple of patches after to being one of the best again. That might change with a new healer where healer balance gets properly sorted, but if it becomes a trend there's always room to meme.

As for the 'heal powerhouse' they probably refer to on demand quick powerful heals they can give out (aka GCD heals) cause of their nearly infinite MP supply when things are not going well, though AST's MP rework puts them to a very close 2nd here because of how overtuned they got.