Quote Originally Posted by aiqa View Post
It's difficult to compare individuals, but statistics will just average out eventually.
When looking at any reasonable percentile at fflog I am not seeing such big differences.
And assuming both healers contribute the same to HPS I am not also seeing where doubling the DPS would come from from a rotation point of view.
Healers will never contribute the same HPS because of the way toolkits are set up. Afflatus when used properly is a dps gain so in a WHM/SCH comp WHM heals take precedence over scholars. Order priority should be afflatus heal + ogcd weave > then sch ogcd > then WHM ogcd without afflatus > then sch gcd > then WHM gcd. You should almost never hit the last part. Currently, given how low the healing requirement is, this means WHM do a huge chunk of the healing.

And again, as far as job potential and balance goes you should only concern yourself with top tier optimized play. In which WHM is ahead by a landslide. FFlogs actually introduced raid dps today and it's become clear that in upper tiers WHM is ahead overall by about 800 dps (that's 800 ahead of pdps and rdps combined for sch). So that would be double what CS brings (and mind you this is in a context where the parties leverages CS to it's max).

That gap is reduced at lower tiers because the lower the skill the better CS is compared to your personal DPS. But again it's a little weird to look at those for job comparison since players aren't optimized. If you don't understand how afflatus skills benefit you and should be used, that's more telling of the class design than it is the class balance, for example.