Quote Originally Posted by Belhi View Post
Are you seriously arguing that Mitigation healing and Throughput healing are more similar than how a BRD and a BLM play? SCH is about keeping the group from taking damage and WHM is about bringing heal back up. As I said before, you never see an issue with SCH and WHM competing with each other for a healing spot because if you have a Throughput healer or a Mitigation healer you don't want another one in the Full party. There is a reason people aren't too keen when they get 2 SCHs in a full party.
And I am talking about styles of play, not the result that occurs.

If we're talking about the result, most DPS is the same, since they all deal damage (some more AOE oriented than others).

I'm talking about the actions of the player.

End result difference between throughput healing and shield healing? Tons. Which is why groups want one of each. But what is the actual play-style difference between giving a large heal after big damage and giving a shield heal before big damage? About a second of delay.