Jobs for players with bad latency and lag?

[UkcsAlias]

While a lagging healer is definitely not what you want, shields are a bit more reliable as they do act as overheal allowing you to prepare for incoming damage a bit better. And i think sholar is on that slightly better than sage. Although both should work fine enough.

Earlier casting on normal healers can result in a wasted heal a lot faster.

[Allegor]

While a lagging healer is definitely not what you want, shields are a bit more reliable as they do act as overheal allowing you to prepare for incoming damage a bit better. And i think sholar is on that slightly better than sage. Although both should work fine enough.

Earlier casting on normal healers can result in a wasted heal a lot faster.

I'd say SCH is actually the worst healer to play with high latency since unlike Sage (which isn't much better, mind you) you have to cast your shields, which may get a bit wasted if cast too early, but entirely wasted if cast too late, and that's not even mentioning all the ogcd weaving that will clip.

WHM is the best choice hands down because the job is not only bareboned with nearly no ogcd to begin with, it also has strong instant heals, so it's really forgiving for a late reaction.

[UkcsAlias]

and that's not even mentioning all the ogcd weaving that will clip.

If you have lag (as in packet loss style) and latency, weaving will become very unreliable as it can only rely on it having queued. And as your timing will be off regardless, you want a healer that can apply the effect at both moments. A late shield is not wasted because the shield is still there! That shield acts the same as healing on that. Note that barely any attack will instantly take the HP away, and if it does, an early shield cast would at least have done something, with WHM the player is already dead before you know.

WHM at least has more regens which on that can be better as it grants more healing over time. And if nothing more is demanded, it obviously will work. But in that case, nearly all healers are going to do fine anyway. And below a certain level SCH does lack quite a lot of abilities that benefit when lagging (i would say below lvl 60 sch will indeed have some issues in such way it becomes a pain to handle).

Dont expect lagging players to follow perfect rotations, its not going to happen. So you want to ensure as much as possible is going to work succesfully. Weaving can be queued on that, which does benefit SCH as it does allow quite a bit of these. But reacting quickly isnt going to be possible. SCH can trigger a lot of these indirect effects that are timed perfectly on the server side, WHM has less of those. WHM only has higher raw output numbers on the healing.

You might think DPS matters here, but it doesnt. You will waste a lot of cycles, so optimizing dps is a 'best effort' case and losing 20% here wont matter in any of the dungeons. Only in things like savages you will realy need to optimize this, and thats something that if you are lagging is something i would highly discourage anyway.

But in the end, it depends on how severe the lagging is. If the game just goes into low fps or has a big (but reliable) latency, then most healers will work anyway as you can still follow the flow well. But the moment this isnt reliable, you are often down to guessing. And shields are more forgiving here. WHM only has sustained healing over time which helps a lot in most cases, but its those burst waves that are truly dangerous, and this is where WHM cant realy do a lot against.