Starter healer... WHM?

[IceBlueNinja]

I would go with sch. They have instant heals and unlike ast they can use them up to three times in one min.

Umm sounds like your insulting ast there, ast aspected benefic is instant without light speed and using light speed = makes all spells instant cast and res cut spell time by 50%. I am assuming your just basing it on arr content, because at heavens ward and further expansions lustrate and indoms loses out bad to cure 2/benefic 2 and and medica/helios heals. Finally you forgot to mention if you have no aether you cant even use lustrate or indom which is the only 2 instant spell cast spells sch have.

[Roeshel]

Umm sounds like your insulting ast there, ast aspected benefic is instant without light speed and using light speed = makes all spells instant cast and res cut spell time by 50%. I am assuming your just basing it on arr content, because at heavens ward and further expansions lustrate and indoms loses out bad to cure 2/benefic 2 and and medica/helios heals.

By instant I meant ogcds. They can keep spamming their aoe damage ability while healing. You can't cast gravity while you are casting benefic II so what's your point? Whm can also cast cure II for heal botting too.

And no, lightspeed doesn't cut rezz time by 50% but by 2.5s so it's 33%.

No, I am not basing it only arr content and lustrate doesn't lose to benefic 2 or cure 2 at any point of the game. It is ogcd with 600 cure potency that you can use instantly while doing damage. The other two are gcd heals who are 25 cure potency stronger than a non-crit aldo which is sch's gcd heal. If we have to compare which healer has the strongest single targeted heal on gcd (aldo, benefic II, cure II) that would be the scholar because of the Catalyze buff. Aldo becomes a reliable strong gcd heal only after obtaining Recitation though.

Indom never loses to medica/helios. I don't know even where you would need to cast medica and helios in lvl 50+ content in the first place. The reasoning is the same, it's an ogcd, medica and helios are gcd with even weaker potency than indom on top of that. Succor which is the sch's equivalent for gcd cheap aoe heal is also stronger if the shields are utilized. Succor has 405 cure potency in total, medica is 300, helios is 330.

Finally you forgot to mention if you have no aether you cant even use lustrate or indom which is the only 2 instant spell cast spells sch have.

Also, I did say that you can cast them up to three times per minute. This is actually not very true because u can cast them more frequently if you manage your resources properly but what I meant to say is that you get 3 aether stacks per minute and you can use them for lustrate.

If we count the fairy commands as instant casts, which they technically are, just the execution of the commanded action is delayed, then the SCH has 8 instant casts for healing and only half of them require an aether stack. In addition to that, the sch has an automatic 96 actual potency regen in 15y radius on the party member with the lowest hp known as fairy.