POLL: Best healer for 4 mans?

[TheWaywardWind]

Yet it is for the reasons that Scholar falls behind. And your math is wrong.

This is assuming you have six mobs, and you neglect the fact that Bane's potency is reduced by half when you have four mobs or more. It is not the same for every single mob.

[Pence]

True. Sorry, in PVP while I type. But SCH still packs a decent punch.

[Nekotee]

Easiest answer : all three

They all have pro and con but as long as you master the timing to switch stance because your cripple tank cannot take more than 30 hit without being low life
It should be fine and fast

The tank must not be a LAZY one that forget his défensive CD XD

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But honestly
I think whm and SCH are on par
Ast is pretty weaker in DPS but can really boost dps

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And i'm sorry but SCH is the master in aoe
While the whm is best in single target
Especially in term of mana (the whm burn too much in aoe)

[AlexanderThorolund]

Scholar, it's just another DPS in 4 man dungeons.

[Atoli]

I'd go WHM > SCH > AST, although I have to say AST may go way up in that rating if the right cards are drawn.
The difference between healer damage past 52 isn't THAT big, but keeping your aoe DPS classes' dmg boosted all the time can end up being a much, much greater asset than that 300 potency attack every one and a half minute

But, as anything with AST, it ends up being based on luck

[Werhusky]

If you want raw burst DPS its definitely WHM for me, just Regen M2 Asylum CS and go. Also a Bene while you just spam holy <3
AST is imo next up as you can use cards and Gravity stuff down and if need more DPS time just CO and keep doing your stuff.
SCH I would put last due to DoTs and "single target only" and if you unlucky the DPS single target your dotted mob before you have them up/can Bane.
Just my PoV though ^^

I use AST in most cases for Dungeons... probably because its my worst of the 3 heals and I rarely use in raids
AST on 50 is worst though either way as it has no AoE skill >.>

[Kabzy]

As you mentioned speed clearing, WHM definitely wins out of the three. Aero III, Holy and Assize are all amazing spells.

[MXMoondoggie]

If you are speed running a WHM is better simply for clearing trash and adds on bosses far more capable of attacking multiple targets at once and holy as an AoE attack + stun is still OP to the point of it being nerfed twice and still being really effective along with at lvl 60 having two more AoE attacks to play with including the insanely good Assize. This is just going by basics though there are always variances with skill but in 4 man speed runs it really depends on a lot of AoE which WHM adds to so it edges it.

[Cleftobismal]

Max Potency on Aoe Dots:

WHM:

Aero 3

320 over 24 seconds


SCH

Shadow Flare

250 over 30



By the time I set up dots as a sch, 3.5 holy's have already went off. (Not including presence of mind or a whm that builds spell build)


In the long run It's definitely a sch that will out aoe a whm with the combine power of Shadow Flare + dots + Blizzard Three. Not to mention when the whm runs out of mana.

In terms of a speed run though where everyone is equipped to do a lot of damage, a whm would win over a sch because of the less time needed to set up.

[MrsFluffyButt]

I know this doesn't apply to me as much cos' I'm tank vet and main, but for 4 man content, I prefer AST/SCH. True AST isn't the best with DPS but it's SpS stance, buffs and lightspeed...hard to go wrong.