White Mage vs Scholar

[Myrhn]

Tell that guy to solo heal T8 as a whm if sch is so bad.

[Sanguisio]

Omg this again
WHM is AOE healer,
SCH is the turret.

Both can do either job if necessary.

[Teno]

As a SCH, I really like having a WHM by my side. It's somehow reasurring to see galvanize and medica II on the whole party, instead of just galvanize.
We have a better form of preventing the damage with these two spells.
The two classes are really well designed to be played together.

[Ashkendor]

The healing roles in this game are actually beautifully balanced, to the point where if I pop into 8-man content in a pug and there's a second white mage, I groan.
Two white mages or two scholars are a terrible matchup. One whm, one scholar is fantabulous.

I'm the same way. As SCH, I would so much rather be paired up with a WHM than another SCH.

I have tried scholar and cannot get on with it, but my static scholar feels the same about whm =P We are a dynamic healing duo~

Sounds like me and a friend of mine. She loves WHM, I love SCH. Together we're friggin unstoppable. :3

Ihave both and a prefer scholar cause we mitigate damage and we save people from dieing yes a whm is better for aoe heals but we have btter mp regen almost unlimited and we heal a lot too my physick is 1032 plus an embrace of 700-800 its a nice heal and adlo its like healing 1690 and if it crits pfff huge mitigation

Exactly. I personally prefer SCH because I can always be busy. If there's a lull in the damage taken (like a big Adloq crit), I can Cleric Stance, throw out a few DoTs, and switch back. On the off chance someone DOES take massive damage while I'm doing that, Lustrate is so delicious. I have a harder time knowing when I have time to DPS on WHM. It feels clunky and like a poor fit for my play style, so I don't play it as much. SCH seems to have more utility overall with the damage prevention and debuffs, where WHM is a straight up heal battery.

SCH is also amazing in low level dungeons. DPS and let the fairy heal it. xD

Even the utility on the summons is amazing. Roused Fey Illumination + Whispering Dawn is some crazy good HoT (albeit on a fairly long cooldown). Throw a Succor on top of it (and a Medica II if your partner is a WHM) and party-wide massive damage becomes a snap to recover from. I don't know how anyone can possibly say that Scholar isn't a "real healer"; that to me just seems like they're ignorant of how the class itself works.

[Ephany]

I play both but I vastly prefer to play as SCH.
I feel like WHM gets boring really quickly as there isn't a lot to it.

It's just my opinion, but there isn't much more to WHM than cure, regen and medica...
But with SCH, I have all my mitigations, shields, fairy micro managing, and can even throw out as much dps as I like without thinking about MP.

So it really depends on play style. If you like big powerful heals, go with WHM.
If you like to be constantly busy and are good at pre-emptive thinking, go with SCH.

[Kazumac]

They are both great healers. Any content you only need one healer.. Either work equally well. For 8 man stuff you want one of each if possible. It really is that simple.

Which one you will like/feel more comfortable with... That is personal preference. I am a WHM turned SCH and I'm not looking back. Not because WHM isn't as good, just because I prefer SCH.

[AspectOfWinter]

I would say that I personally prefer WHM, although I've seen nearly twice as many SCHs in Duty Finder as WHMs, so it seems most people disagree.

WHM

Pros
-Higher overall healing power
-Several healing cooldowns
-Cleric Stance makes it one of the best classes for soloing, especially once you can get your chocbo to fight for you
-Can start healing as early as level 15

Cons
-Problems with conserving MP over long fights
-Can't help out with DPS as much in Light Party

SCH

Pros
-Can abuse a lot of SMN's DPS potential while fairy heals
-Shielding spells
-No MP efficiency issues

Cons
-Fairy pet clashes utterly with class's lore background
-Bad AI on fairy
-Lack of AoE healing
-Best abilities are not received until well into the Job storyline
-Dependent on pet for healing; if anything happens to it, well I hope you didn't blow your Swiftcast cooldown

[Staris]

Tell that guy to solo heal T8 as a whm if sch is so bad.

Did it!.
Do I win?

[bloodSp3c]

after having a whm healer main since day 1, I finally got my summoner/scholar to 50 (distributed points evenly 15/15 to int/mind, as I play both jobs) tried out scholar healing and its actually pretty fun. atm ive just got the pets doing their own thing while I get used to it all, but it plays very differently to whm healing

[Roxinova]

WHM
Cons
-Problems with conserving MP over long fights
-Can't help out with DPS as much in Light Party

SCH
Cons
-Lack of AoE healing
-Dependent on pet for healing; if anything happens to it, well I hope you didn't blow your Swiftcast cooldown

WHM
-Shroud of the Saints
-Cleric Stance + Aero I & II + Stone II + Holy (Fluid Aura + Blizz II if they get resist to Stun)
SCH
-Succor, Whispering Dawn (add Fey Illumination for added AoE heal bonus, or Rouse), Fey Covenant to reduce damage
-Adloquim (heal and shield), Lustrate (straight 25% heal), Sacred Soil (AoE damage reduction), Virus (damage reduction)

Some of the cons you mentioned are not even an issue for the experienced healers of that class.