What is the be Healer?

[TatoRazzino]

They're not hypothetical at all. A1S and Thordan are there to prove it's possible to balance everything without catering to any single healer. There are mechanics in there that make WHM shine, AST shine and few that make SCH shine. Your three lustrates every minute merely match burst you can get by using what's built into WHM's and AST's GCD. Add Tetra and Essential Dignity + Enhanced Benefic's proc + Lightspeed + Synastry and you see that a lot of tools pass Lustrate in healing. That's just overestimating SCH. And I mained it in 2.X, it's the only Zeta I finished and I started Savage with it.

[CBellz]

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That's not the hypothetical situation I'm talking about. I'm talking about you claiming SCH would be useless without any DPS checks in fights, which is verging on changing core gameplay. As for your point about A1S, seems like you're arguing that all three healers are viable here, which strays from the point. Everyone here is arguing that any optimal (key word) healing composition in these fights includes a SCH.

A SCH can reach 900 potency in a single GCD with physick and lustrate and WITHOUT the fairy every 20s if needed. WHM/ASTs cannot put out more healing throughput without spending mana inefficiently, and this is why SCH is broken. No other healer can get away with 5+ raises in a single fight without ballad and still be perfectly fine on resource management. When you factor in resource management as a factor of healer efficiency, there's just no comparison.