Oh, don't get me wrong. WHM needs work. MP management and threat management in general are terrible and there's a litany of changes needed to make Benediction and PoM workable (plus I think WHM in particular is in sore need of a placeable AOE heal - think Sacred Soil, but with a slow regen instead of mitigation. SWotR did this quite well on Sorc healers), but this one difference in the classes seemed out of whack to me. I'd be willing to bet it's a hold-over from WHM being the only healer in the dev process for God knows how long. As it stands though:

"So, which one of these healers is the mitigation one?"
"Scholar."
"So which one do we give the better shared mitigation skills to?"
"White Mage"



I switch back and forth a lot, but WHM is more or less my "main," but it still seems wonky. Don't think SCH should get both and I'd be loathe to see WHM get nerfed in any way since it already has other systemic issues, but I could see SCH getting a bit of a mitigation boost, too.

What if soil came off the stacks but had a casting cost equivalent to something like Medica II on WHM? I could rationalize something that puts a little more pressure on the SCH MP bar, since it seems like, at least in my experience running SCH, you really have to derp up your "rotation" as it is to feel any pressure on MP management.