WHM or SCH for you..?

[Kelya]

Personnaly I play both a lot and I find them cool in all cases.

But the fact is, IMO, SCH is too easy. Not in the way it's too easy to learn but in the way that, when you learned it very well, everything becomes easy. Even if it's not the way to go, if sometimes you find yourself being completly spamming your spells (Galvanize mainly), you won't ever get any MP issues because either Galvanize MP cost is too low or Aether Flow MP is too much/CD is too quick. On the contrary, WHM cannot afford to spam like this, even 10s of bad utilities of his spells can have big issues later on the fight. I mean, the mastered WHM has a very little treshold with Mistakes. The SCH, once you mastered it, has not, or very very less (assuming you understood how to manage your MP and your stacks).

I'm not saying the SCH is overpowered and he can prevent from getting any wipe, but there is a difference quite noticable on the constraints between these two jobs once you know them and play them on the same contents.

Feeling this, I just feel WHM more challenging, more difficult and it applies in more fights, more contents. Not to add the overheal/threat you need to take care more than with the SCH.

WHM I find it more aleatory and versatile. You have several way to heal, a lot of options. When there is a specific mecanic of the fight, you can choose between 4 way to go sometimes, whereas SCH will focus on the approximatively same gameplay : Galvanize/Physick (whose ratio depends on ppl and fights), your fairy, your stacks. When I try to play in a different way, I face to obstacles very quick with SCH, as if there were so much limits, due to the effectivness of some spells and the less effectivness of some others. Same for the gear, WHM gameplay is not affected by one stat particularly whearas SCH is completly axed on Critical rate, meaning if you go away from it, you have a lot of chance to loose effectivness of the job.

Sure the SCH got a fairy to take care, but except the healing spell (that is most of the time combined with a macro) the others spells are CD of 30s - 60s - 120s, which is very long. In most of the fights, when I assume everyone go as SCH/WHM team, it won't be difficult to heal and use your fairy at the same time. I know on Solo content SCH, the "difficult" part of the job can show itself though.