Quote Originally Posted by Tiva View Post
I mean this is my opinion of what happened as raider. I play all 3 healers and the whole time I've been saying after the first set of changes diurnal vs whm was not actually that bad of a gap (despite what many people were still saying ) and it was really noct va sch that has a huge gap. And every patch I was like ok yes they are finally going to work on noct vs sch and it just never really happened. I realize that noct is good. I know it's solo healed a12s and like noct AB is as strong as cute 2. But it still was not favored for prog and I still feel that is bc of all the free support and healing Eos provides. JMO pls tell me what you guys think
I can't imagine how rough it was for WHM/AST in A8S with those J-Kicks before the first Noct buff, it just wasn't even a thought to progress with that combo. I figured from that point on they were just going to buff the shields more because anything else is just a re-haul.

Now this Creator tier we've seen a good amount of WHM/AST for progression. However you have to think a little differently. Noct AST should actually be the "main healer" since with same ilvl Benefic>Cure because of the stance buff, and the WHM supporting with regens, AoE healing and also DPS.

Aside from this combo having to spend GCDs to actually heal where as Eos can carry a lot of weight on her shoulders while healers in cleric stance, the problems I have seen with some groups that are slow on progression is the WHM and sometimes both healers aren't ACC-melded. Both healers sometimes collide on healing instead of working together. So the combo doesn't put up much damage either. Good groups figure out how both healers can keep their DoTs running regardless of the combo. It's really down to efficiency, and there isn't any doubt that AST/SCH provides the most.

You have to ask and answer more questions with WHM/AST to be efficient, and even more so with AST/AST.