Pros and Cons of each Healer Role

[winsock]

...This is not what sustained DPS is

If you did 1000 dps in the first 30 seconds and 0 dps on the next 30 seconds, you average at 500 dps. But you completely dropped your damage on the last half. How would this kind of damage contribution be considered "sustained"? Even if you throw in the "rotation gimmick", we're healers: What rotation?!. We set up some DoTs and we're done and if we have free time, we use filler spells.

This is a common MMO thing. Your sustain is your average, your burst are your peaks throughout the average

In a general class comparison of sustained dps, you compare the dps from the rotation.
MNK sustain is greater than DRG sustain, even if that's not true for x particular fight cause the back positional isnt open for y reason, or you just stand around and dont dps. Again, we're talking about generic comparisons

And yes, healers have dps rotations

[Anienai]

Astro = Fun
Sch = Fun
WHM = Boring as ----

[Ghishlain]

You nearly split my post into 8 segments...
most of them, individual sentences....
and call me nitpicky... lol

No, I responded to your entire post in piecemeal fashion since there were enough individual and different comments/points you were making to respond in such a fashion.

You were taking one point out of a thirty-two point list I created of pros and cons.

You stated:
"[SCH]+Highest sustained DPS of the three"
Which is false.

Kinda like how I said Gravity is lvl 60 earlier. It was false.

Would you prefer I reword that line "Highest sustained DPS in high-tier practical application of the three"? Because at this moment you are arguing a semantic of the definition of "sustained DPS". I could also reword it to be "Highest consistent DPS of the three" if that's suitable too.

With that being said, I don't think many people would argue SCH has a better sustained DPS in practical application versus WHM. WHM does offer better potential in shorter fights like Faust / Hummelfaust in A5S and the gauntlet style fights in A6S, but otherwise SCH pretty much over powers WHM DPS by at least 10% at the highest tier of play (more when you start getting lower in the skill chain).

I'll say this though.

Average DPS from DPS rotation.

You are technically not wrong about this. But I would think you would have the sense to understand the context I was referring too.

When I asked six of my MMO friends how they would define "Sustained DPS", five of them responded with some variation of "A DPS that has consistent output throughout the fight". The sixth said that and also mentioned how it could be the average DPS of the fight because a Sustained DPS' average doesn't sway too far from that line. Which I agree with.

In other words, we're both right. I'll leave it at that.

Breaking down the actual differences might be a fun discussion at some point though!

I'm not sure if I want to get into this discussion at the very moment >>; There's a lot of context to consider and on top of that each kit is situationally better pending on the fight, party composition, and party skill level.

Let alone the fact we seem to disagree far too much on petty semantics since we seem have gone through different cultures of MMOs leading to the massive difference in opinion and semantics we already have to begin with. I've personally never heard of average DPS refereed to as sustained DPS. Only as it is written - average.

It would probably be terrible for us to dissect kits because of the above. lol.. You might have more luck with someone else though.

[Powe]

To Lyrica_Ashtine :I put cards second because its not as reliable, but is still better than waiting for a CD you have a 1/6 to 1/5 chance of pulling a ewer card

[Lyrica_Ashtine]

but is still better than waiting for a CD

assize is guaranteed 10% mp recovered plus one and a half stone III worth of mp or 1 Medica worth of mp. And have you forgotten that draw is an ability with CD time as well?

I'm not even going to bother calculating the average on that. Point is, you said that white mage MP recovery is unreliable, but somehow cards at the mercy of RNG is more reliable?

[Fricca]

Pros:
WHM: Cure III, Benediction, Assize, Most HoTs
AST: Cards, Disable, No cast Single-target Shield, Versatile
SCH: Fairy, Critlo, Deploy, Supervirus, Most DoTs, Most mobile, Versatile

Cons:
WHM: Not-so-versatile
AST: Least DoTs, Least Ohshit skills
SCH: Least HoTs

[VanilleFang]

Pros:
WHM: Cure III, Benediction, Assize, Most HoTs
AST: Cards, Disable, No cast Single-target Shield, Versatile
SCH: Fairy, Critlo, Deploy, Supervirus, Most DoTs, Most mobile, Versatile

Cons:
WHM: Not-so-versatile
AST: Least DoTs, Least Ohshit skills
SCH: Least HoTs

You forgot to include that WHM have the most AoE healing spells of the three (Assize, Asylum, Medica, Medica II, Cure III) as well as Stoneskin II. And buffs from cards can be seen as a positive as well as a negative because... You forgot to mention the RNG aspect of the Astro.

[Kaurie]

Come on now. MNK can run out of TP before a SMN runs out of MP. Would you rate SMN as having better sustained DPS than MNK?

I am not 100% sure if this is true? I mean it varies depending on a lot of stuff. That said MNK has the highest sustained DPS according to all FFLogs. Summoner can get serious MP problems (more persistent in 2.4/2.5 than in heavensward). If you have a 10 min fight and the MNK runs out of TP and has 1900 DPS from 1-5 minutes and 300 DPS from 5-10 minutes resulting in a DPS of 1100 and the Summoner has a DPS Of 1500 for the first 5 minutes and 1500 for the 2nd 5 minutes with an average of 1500, then yes - the summoner has better sustained DPS where the Monk had stronger burst. That said, it really isn't the case. I don't play Monk, so I cannot elaborate more on that.

In terms of SCH and WHM, that is the case. WHM will run out of MP after 5 minutes of pure DPSing whereas the SCH will not (5 minutes is arbitrary here, I haven't tested exactly when WHM will run out of MP). So in a short duration, such as the 3 minute SSS, WHM will win out. In longer fights, where MP is a limiting factor, SCH wins out -> better sustained.

[Llynd]

And yet, the diff between sch and whm dps on 3 minutes is little, in the order of 80dps. ( and if im not wrong, 3 mn is almost their limit of mana.)

And yes, sch dps never goes Down, we can do the same amount of dps for an hour if we want ^^)

[winsock]

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The key item is that these are generic comparisons. They're intended to outline the advantages and disadvantages of Jobs.

You can and should file "MP management" under the "pro" category for SCH
You can and should file "Highest Sustained DPS" under the "pro" category for WHM
This is by no means trying to say that WHM is always the superior choice for sustained dps.

On the other hand, saying both that "SCH has the highest sustained" and "SCH is the most flexible" implies that SCH is always the superior choice for sustained dps, which just isn't true.


One more example:
if comparing BLM and SMN, you might say BLM has higher sustained DPS, but poorer mobility. That isnt to say that in practice BLM will always have higher dps 100% of the time or that its always superior to SMN. It's only a reflection of the rotation. However, if you were to say SMN has higher sustained DPS based on the scenarios where it can pull better numbers, it misrepresents SMN has being completely superior at both dps and mobility.