Quote Originally Posted by Rilifane View Post
The issue is less that WHM + SCH don't play well enough together because both have great tools for healing but rather AST playing far too well with both of them, making WHM + SCH pale in comparison to an AST + X duo.
WHM and SCH both less mobile than AST and have to pay opportunity cost for their oGCDs outside of dot refresh and ED Ruin II; something AST doesn't have to worry about with the free single weave after every Malefic.
With WHM + SCH it's "Well, one of us has to bite the bullet..." everytime someone needs healing. Even with extremely good coordination, dps loss is inevitable.
AST + X suffers from next to no dps loss because AST can cover the bulk of required healing without worrying about having to align it with movement for no cost while the other healer focuses on filling the few gaps and planning their healing around times when they have to use Lilies/ Ruin II for movement anyway. With an AST, SCH and WHM can play to their strengths.

Looking at my latest kills, Earthly Star alone always healed between 1,5-2m. I had a co healer on E5s who had absolutely no qualms with dumping almost all the responsibility on me, not using a single fairy heal safe for one Aetherpact, no Seraph, Excog or anything. He healed less than our DRK with TBN and it was fine. I only hardcasted three times and that wasn't even neccessary and more for safety than anything else.
This suggests to me the real problem is Tank Mastery, as well as fights using auto attacks less frequently (They do hit harder, you can feel it as a non-tank immediately). Part of what made SCH busted before ShB (and what made AST/WHM bad) was how useful it was to have passive tank healing...which the fairy provided for free. Quickened Aetherflow fuelled Fey Union and Lustrate spam when it was useful, with Rouse putting it into excessive levels of free padding. Even bad tanks do take considerably less damage than before, which has had the knock-on effect of making tank healing even less useful, and Tank Mitigation perhaps feel frivolous, but because it's free, it still gets used, and healers feel the effects of that. WHM/AST struggled in the past precisely because they needed to keep Regens up consistently, which had an overbearing GCD tax. Now? Barely even need thrice nerfed Embrace, save specific situations where mechanics and tank busters do interact with autos appropriately. And AST got Intersection to compensate.