Healer Guide/Class Comparison

[Splorch]

To give you an understanding of how I see the WHM I think of it as a great class to learn things with. Through pure solid healing it can recover from errors, unprepared major hits, and goofs much better than the scholar though spam healing, I've recover battles that should have been lost. The cost is usually over 2000 mana, however, and as we both know that's not something that can be recovered easily by the WHM. Most of my issues stem from seeing the future of the class as part of static groups doing higher end content. Once you have the strategy down, everyone is dodging, tanks are on their cooldown rotation, guilds will begin to min/max their groups for efficiency, and SCHs bring more utility, can take care of a single target much better, and are still sufficient for almost all AoE healing requirements.

First point I agree with, no PuG group or casual guild will go find a WHM for a buff and shouldn't. Almost all fights in this game don't require min/max. I've been pugging for the last couple weeks due to the FC falling apart and I still get turns 1-4 down and have now started titan EX. Have I been in guilds in past MMO's that would do that? Yeah, sadly I have. They would stick someone like the WHM right outside the instance.

SCH virus can tone down certain magic damages, but I also mentioned that 99% of all damage taken is physical(see fey covenant). It's more useful, but I wouldn't give it too much more credit beyond that. I use virus all the same as WHM. Yes, E4E is on a shorter cooldown for SCH, which makes more uptime, still better in terms of usage, but doesn't stop me from using it.

Regen can be casted and forgotten. It has the benefit of not requiring a split mind or being distracted. When my healing is genuinely required, though, if regen wears off from say the offtank I can't always waste the cooldown to assist the other healer if we're doing split healing. Eos can be used either through ingame macros, or out of game keyboard macros to just sit on someone and spam away, effectively acting as a regen, only slightly stronger. When the target is healed and fine though, you can easily move Eos to another target, you don't just see half the spell tick away doing nothing. You don't have to burn another GCD or mana, you just switch her to another target and continue with what you're doing.

WD in direct comparison to Medica II is better. I also said that Cure III is the single strongest group heal, and SCH's have nothing to compare. With how high the cost/cast time of Medica II is its sad that it can be outdone by a pet. Medica II can be used more often, but how many WHM honestly want the aggro from it, or to spend 900 mana a minute, on top of still having to use Medica I or Cure III. With how small the HoT is it's no longer a reliable form of recovery. WD coupled with a succor, which is still cheaper effectively has its own synergy of a small bump plus shield to buy WD time to tick(it only needs 2 ticks to out heal medica I, which is what I use for 90% of all aoes that land as a WHM. By the third tick it has already surpassed Medica II with its initial bump. With SCH/SCH you can still use WD every time it's required, though without communication/familiarity with eachother, SCH's will stack it, and not have it available when they require it, which is when they spam succor and wish they were WHM's. When using cure III in most cases I cast it on myself, which mean I have to move myself to accommodate for everyone's positioning.

If people don't know that you can only have 1 fairy out at a time then I will adjust my post above. As I've stated I will make adjustments as they're needed. My last turn 4 group did use selene for the first 4 phases and then had a mid battle switch to eos. In the end the fairy combo still maintained over 300 hps with Selene at 70(mind you she wasn't healing the whole second half) and Eos at 240ish. since they each got half the battle that means that selene was near 140 hps while out, and Eos was pulling nearly 480 during the second half.

[Sebazy]

Once you have the strategy down, everyone is dodging, tanks are on their cooldown rotation, guilds will begin to min/max their groups for efficiency, and SCHs bring more utility, can take care of a single target much better, and are still sufficient for almost all AoE healing requirements.

You're not the only one that's said this, yet the FC I'm in (that has multiple server firsts and was inside the top 10 for world first T5 clear) has never once asked me to play as part of a SCH double team, we either run a single healer or we run WHM/SCH. Theorycraft all you want, the two jobs have near perfect synergy with each other and cover each other's weaknesses perfectly.