What is the be Healer?

[DamianFatale]

I\\\\'m training healer classes, so I wanna know what you think. What is the best healer in the game right now.

[Lyrica_Ashtine]

Scholar*



* Not even kidding

[VanilleFang]

Pass me some of that popcorn please!

In all seriousness though.... If you compare SCH to the other healers at any level you will generally come to the conclusion that SCH makes everything easier and safer. It's not to say the other healers are bad, they aren't, but a SCH is better in the game's current state, regardless of how marginal that may be. They are not required for anything but they make everything safer, more so than a Noct AST. A Noct AST has no Crit bonus on Aspected Bene and doesn't have free healing with a fairy. They do have buffs in their cards, but those don't work very reliably (I would argue they are less reliable than a Crit but I have no math to back that up). And the power of a SCH's healing has already been beat to death, so I'm not going to reiterate the power of Emergency Tactics.

[Lyrica_Ashtine]

Pass me some of that popcorn please!

I ran out on page 5

If you compare SCH to the other healers at any level you will generally come to the conclusion that SCH makes everything easier and safer.

I've mentioned something similar on page 3. Sadly it didn't get much attention, so I'll just quote this one so it gets some extra love it deserves.

[Velox]

As of 3.1, SCH hands down. Can heal, buff, debuff, mitigate, DPS...it's the perfect jack-of-all-trades job.

[TatoRazzino]

Depends on playstyle and your objectives.

[bounddreamer]

Scholar also has the highest skill cap to play it WELL.

WHM is probably the strongest "pure" healer.

[NorthernLadMSP]

The best healer is WHM.

The best DPS-healer combo is SCH.

The best buffer-healer combo is AST.

A true healer would have all three leveled and geared.

[Mimilu]

It comes down to playstyle:
If you want strong heals and HoTs, go WHM
If you want to deal with damage mitigation and also want to do the most DPS a healer can, SCH
If you want speed, mobility, and buffs, go AST

[Naria]

It depends, under what circumstances are you going to be healing? I prefer sch overall but tend to play it mostly premades, when I know the tank or other healer. For the DF I mostly play whm, since it gives me more abilities to compensate for mistakes.

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