Preferred Healer

[Rawrz]

If you want snooze-mode healing then Scholar.

I've been playing all wrong I guess. As the scholar I am always watching my main healer's casts and the party's HP on top of making sure Lilly is spamming embrace every cast/appropriate cool downs are in use for her. If someone dies to raw damage after the main heal is using the appropriate heal (single vs aoe) it's the off heal scholars fault. Not gonna let that happen. On top of this I'm gonna push my dps to make up for the 85% of the time that I'm not needed (even though Lilly does a considerable amount of healing overtime with rouse and that I can mitigate tank busters/massive aoe with virus.)

[Red_Wolf]

On top of this I'm gonna push my dps to make up for the 85% of the time that I'm not needed

Congrats on pushing your DPS. I'm sure you're an asset to your static. But we're blurring the lines here. I say SCH isn't needed much for healing because of the fairy, then you disagree but admit you're not required to heal 85% of the time. I mean... come on man. If you're only required to heal 15% of the time then I'd say that's a lot less intensive healing. I don't think anyone is expecting you drop a bomb DPS-wise, but good for you for pushing it anyway.

[Rawrz]

It's not the fact that you're not healing, it's that you should always be watching for when your main healer cannot. So you are actively watching for when heals are needed, gauging if the main healer can handle it. AOE incoming in 1.5 seconds, main heal is just now starting Medica, cs off, idom. xD

[Xenosan]

DPSing SCH, wish I remembered the name of 1 because I would definitely plug them (or ask for a POV video-capture to learn from them).

I remember feeling embarrassed because they were either clipping me or beating me on EncDPS in Fractal Cont (even Trash O_o). Not all DPSing SCHs are the same I guess, or else I've just not been getting out enough. This was before the VIT/STR adjustment and I think they were pulling ~500+ EncDPS on trash, bosses even higher..

What do SCHs usually hit on charts, or are proud of (Dungeons)? Each dungeon and party config changes the expectation I suppose.

Is this exceptional (certainly felt so), even possible, was ACT broken? How does SCH get 500+ on trash? I can't imagine the trash lived long enough to warrant a Bio 2 refresh.

I switched from WHM to SCH as my healer job after that instance, hope to be that impressive someday.

my preferred healer is this person whomever they are.

[revonine]

I've always loved SCH and I still do. So much so that when I use my WHM I feel "naked" without my fairy. Lilly always got my back when I switch to Cleric Stance. I must actually get around to trying AST as I've heard pretty good things about it.

[Anienai]

AST for the card buffs.

[Falar]

As a DRK its WHM for me. Living Dead-Benediction for the win.

[MagiusNecros]

As a DRK its WHM for me. Living Dead-Benediction for the win.

Same. The shared CD that LD and Bene have isn't a coincidence. And all the free heals allows a DRK to fight without Grit for a time.

[Februs]

I'm biased towards Whms, but only because I have an FC healer who is obsessive compulsive and has healed me through pretty much every horror scenario you could even think of. I've gone out of my way to make that girl's life a living hell by tanking as recklessly as possible at the very edge of what I could handle, and she still just won't let me die. So, I've developed a fondness for that job ... which, of course, makes me seethe with all the rage of a religious zealot when I see one who's not living up to that standard.

Oh, and Whm's for PvP as well. I still use my Pld in Feast, and my 9 second stun-lock works very well with a well-timed Repose to ensure maximum enemy healer trolling. It's rare to see a random Whm do that, but when they do it tickles me in just the right way and practically guarantees the Dps a kill.

In general, though, it doesn't really matter so long as I'm not licking the floor. Any healer who doesn't just coast by doing the minimum gets an A in my book, regardless of what job they're on.

[BanditKingZ]

WHM or SCH personally. I kinda fear for my live with AST