WHM vs. SCH -- What is the basic difference.

[Okashii]

Sorry about your T5 experience. It's ridiculous to expect that the WHM is going to bust out Cure III just for Fireballs. Not only should the SCH have precast Succor in anticipation of the Fireball to take some of the edge off, you have plenty of time to recover from Fireball hits since that's the ONLY damage anyone should be taking in that phase aside from the tank and whoever is slow-roasting inside of a Conflagration. It makes me very nervous when a WHM is visibly running out of mana and Conflags aren't even done yet, and overreacting to the Fireball damage is probably a big reason why that happens.

Yeah, I think healers need to calm down a little bit massive damage is no problem. If no one dies, its really easy to heal up. Also, I think I will use "slow roasting inside of a Conflagration" from now on XD

[EdenLost]

As a WHM, I'm a healer that can do some damage.

As a SCH, I can do alot of stuff, including heal.

SCH feels more like support to me. It's the lazy mans heal, but you get to do other things. I love them both, but really.....you don't realize how much that little fairy heals for you until you don't have her.

It's hard to really grasp it until you play them yourself, but they are different enough to warrant two classes.

[Noll]

SCH has to manage more skills + pet and pet skills. Has tons more options and he's clearly superior in single target healing.

WHM has less skills to use but he has to manage them well, being more MP limited than the SCH.

There's no better healer, it depends on your playstyle. Personally I fell great playing sch, and I woulnd't like playing whm the same.