I was wrong about WHMs.

[Velox]

So I personally chose a Scholar because I like to play a class that I thought/think is most challenging. I always used naga, and I have close to 30+ binds on my SCH.

Now, I had a misconception that constant no down time multi-tasking is somewhat what I defined as "high skill cap".

I leveled a WHM to 50 and ran SCoB and I realized that being constantly proactive does not always make the best healer, I.E SCH.

WHM has just as much utility as SCH and much more challenging in a lot of situations.

See, people think SCH has a higher skill-cap because of pet micro, but that is just laughable to me. As I have mastered SCH to a certain point and micro is not really a micro, you just have 3-4 more binds to manage.

Just my 2 cents on my new perspective on WHMs and props to good WHMs out there.

The challenge for SCH is not only the number of skills, but changing your approach from a typical "I'm a healer, I heal people" mindset and instead look at the job as more of a support role than a healer. "I have a vast array of abilities that protect my allies and reduce my foe's ability to fight." Once you have established this mindset SCH becomes so much damn fun to play. They also have more room for error overall due to having both a fairy and quicker heals which allow for more healing-on-the-go instead of a stop-and-cast which is all WHM can do.

If I had to describe it simply, it would be
WHM is easy to learn, yet hard to master
SCH is hard to learn, yet easy to master

[Tranquil]

The bottom line is, the jobs are balanced well at the moment and both of them have their things they excel at in 8-man raid settings, hence you should bring one of both.

If I had to describe it simply, it would be
WHM is easy to learn, yet hard to master
SCH is hard to learn, yet easy to master

Ehh, I think it's pretty much the exact opposite.

Ie.

WHM is hard to learn, because mistakes are more punishing with the high potency spells, HoTs and triggering spawn aggro etc. Also, a WHM will have worse sustainability over time so not being MP-efficient and proactive to an extent will cause dents in your performance. (Eg. not precasting anything but just bruteforcing through with Cure IIs when the damage has literally already been done and you gotta catch up). So in a sense, until you have a solid understanding of the game mechanics in general and before you are able to analyze things at the required level, a WHM is punishing. Once that threshold of skill has been hit, I think the kit is pretty simple. (Albeit strong, don't get me wrong!)

SCH on the other hand is very easy to "learn", ie. be lazy with, because it suffers from no enmity issues, has fantastic MP-sustainability and because it has the fairy to patch up things for you even if you are not a good player. So in a sense, bad/new/mediocre players will just seem to be doing their thing, with the fairy doing something, the player in question not having MP or enmity issues, etc. So in a way, the skill floor is low on a SCH, whilst the skill ceiling goes through the roof if you wanna squeeze out everything you can from the job.

Now, this is just me rambling and I don't intend to turn this into a "lulz my job is harder than your job!" -debate, just putting my own 2 cents in as well. I've played both healers a lot since release and I enjoy them both, even if I am a SCH main.

I think it's great to see that the OP has some new-found appreciation for the WHM-buddies out there.