SCH heals

[RajNish]

One thing I've noticed about SCH when I play DPS, is the heals seem slower.

Unlike other healers, SCH is a proactive healer and the task is not to quickly heal, but to mainly mitigate the damage and heal the rest.

This is especially noticeable on boss fights where AoEs can come very close together. With an SCH healer it can get kind of scary and I've actually seen people die because the heals weren't fast enough. SCH shields, on the other hand, are great.

Shields give you a margin of time, so you don't have to be particularly fast, to be honest. But you can be very fast at the same time, if needed. Depending on the situation, you can use several skills, combine them or use one after another to keep your group alive. After 62 lvl Excogitation working pretty well.

The SCH, like other healers, is good enough on large pools and has enough tools to heal anyone, unless your entire group has drowned in endless AOEs, and tank does not know how to mitigate damage. If you manage your AT stacks well, you and your group will have no problem.

Even if for some reason you got stunned, turned into a frog or caught some other crowd control, you always have a fairy.

So, I'm just wondering, when you run dungeons with an SCH healer, do you notice this or do you actually not care who the healer is, as long as they know their job and keep everyone alive. I understand some tanks might actually prefer an SCH healer as well.

I always laugh a lot when some SCH is trying hard and painfully to heal me using only Physick.