WHM getting progressively more unnecessary in content?

[bswpayton]

bswpayton, it's not .

But Im not really basing this off of my own game play exp , I just hit 50 on my astro yesterday so yes i have two in the 50s and one thats level 60. Im going from my tanking experiences, and me playing dps and seeing more scholars doing poorly than the other two healers. Doing extreme primals and seeing almost always the scholar is the first to die before they get a revive or something. What the op mention is she doesnt want whm to be reduced to a dungeon healer well thats what the number one content in the game is but thats beside the point, but from what I have seen a scholar isnt a good solo healer when hp gets low compared to what the others can do like I mention earlier, the raid scene is niche its numbers floating around here on the forums somewhere its post asking why people dont raid. To base whether a job is good or not on something that is so niche just doesnt make any sense to me and prob never will. And I didnt take offense either about you being critical this is a forum ha so its perfectly fine to do that here.

[Rawrz]

But Im not really basing this off of my own game play exp , I just hit 50 on my astro yesterday so yes i have two in the 50s and one thats level 60. Im going from my tanking experiences, and me playing dps and seeing more scholars doing poorly than the other two healers. Doing extreme primals and seeing almost always the scholar is the first to die before they get a revive or something. What the op mention is she doesnt want whm to be reduced to a dungeon healer well thats what the number one content in the game is but thats beside the point, but from what I have seen a scholar isnt a good solo healer when hp gets low compared to what the others can do like I mention earlier, the raid scene is niche its numbers floating around here on the forums somewhere its post asking why people dont raid. To base whether a job is good or not on something that is so niche just doesnt make any sense to me and prob never will. And I didnt take offense either about you being critical this is a forum ha so its perfectly fine to do that here.

Scholar does great solo healing. It always has an extra set of eyes to watch for HP drops. Scholars, like all healers, excel when they know the content. When they can strategize and plan. They have the extra benefit of mitigation, so they can literally heal the party from the past, spending a GCD before it happens, to spend less gcds after or to reach healing outputs they could not have otherwise.

Scholars are constantly asking themselves, can the fairy handle this? When can she not handle this? When should I step in? Should I OGCD heal or does it need shields? An example would be sophia EX. Shes actually really easy to solo heal as an SCH.

Succor during the tilt phase for free healing without loss of DPS. Cintami is happening. 1 of 3 choices.

1) Virus and Fey Cov it. No healing necessary outside of the free succor from tilt. Whispering dawn to fill HP back up at no cost to you.
2) Indom it. Literally all you need to survive. After this first cintami, weave an indom.
3) Fey Illu + ET + Succor or just plain succor. Doesn't matter.
4) Sacred Soil and done. Youll be cutting it close, but if everyone has decent HP and no vuln theyll be fine. Works amazingly if divine veil or dragon kick is up.

I do these things while cohealing and die a little when I see a WHM or AST spamming medica/helios. I've literally already taken care of the massive raid wide aoes and now you're overhealing and wasting your GCDs. Scholars are very stingy about their GCDs.

Next comes the tank buster. Guess what? You don't even have to heal that! You know why? You're a scholar and you're great at identifying when someones doesn't need healed! Adlo if the tanks are bad at CDs or if they have 2+ vuln stacks. They are just going to tank swap and you're going to command Eos/Selene to heal that tank up.

Had an AST the other week in a pug that couldn't heal Faust Z even with me popping Sacred soil, indom, lustrates, virus and spreading Adlo on top of fairy management. They thought it was my fault that we couldn't beat faust, because we kept wiping, even though the AST did 0 DPS. Ive since solo healed faust every week and can still manage to get an opener off + final stretch for some DPS as a Scholar. Our WHM has so much fun out DPSing our PLD. Its all about how you play your class. That AST had amazing tools like Disable and Synastry, that they never used. You just haven't noticed your good SCHs.