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    Aug 2013
    Location
    Gridania
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    Character
    Sebazy Spiritwalker
    World
    Ragnarok
    Main Class
    White Mage Lv 90
    Both jobs near enough best in slot with everything cleared etcetc. Whm and Sch achieve a similar result in a very different manner and as such, the difficulty of either is rather subjective...

    Whm is more about exercising control and restraint, the difficulty comes not from 'healing all the things' but rather, knowing when you can hold back for efficiencies sake. Do you really need to cure 2 that DPS or is it safe to simply let regen do it's work. The other aspect is timing heals to land with big boss hits as well as having sufficient spatial awareness to get the most out of Cure III. All told, whm is quite a slow paced job that requires less actions per minute and a little bit more thought.

    Sch is the polar opposite, I find myself hammering away at my hotkeys significantly faster than on whm for a multitude of reasons. Micromanaging the fairy requires the most work with most stuff boiling down to either mashing two keys at a time or a combination of hotkey and mouse work for <mo>, macros simplify things a little but due to the difference in cast/recast on embrace and physick, key mashing is still the order of the day. A far more liberal sprinkling of abilities that are off the GCD only serves to heighten the APM count. The other noteworthy facet of SCH is that it is much more cooldown centric than WHM, with Selene out you've got 3 cool downs to keep on the boil as well as trying to ensure you get the most out of your Aetherflow charges. Lastly, understanding boss patterns and being able to pre-empt damage spikes with galvanize is the difference between a good and great sch.

    So TLDR version, whm is more of a thinker, sch is more of a doer. My personal opinion is that Sch is mildly more difficult due to the added depth to the job. It's pretty hard to be a bad whm (and most bad whms still usually heal ok, they just waste mp or pull more enmity than they should), whereas sch is rather more intricate to play and hence substantially easier to play at a significantly sub par level.
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    Last edited by Sebazy; 02-20-2014 at 09:49 AM.