Quote Originally Posted by Aurum View Post
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You sound like you never did progression raiding before, dude. You're all stuck in a 2.x meta and you can't shake it off. There were several situations tonight in which having Synastry, Time Dilation, Lightspeed, Disable, insta-cast shields and even Collective Unconscious would have made healing a lot EASIER. Having an AST in the party adds utility and some nice healing tools which WHM/SCH don't have. Things are going to be hard no matter which healing duo you get in there. People are using WHM/SCH because everyone is used to that, since they've been used since 2013. Hardcore progression groups don't want to waste time learning anything other than the fight, and that's why lots of them are sticking to the old jobs or to jobs that have easy learning curves. Healing is more complex than DPSing, since there's no rotation to follow and no dummy to train on.