Predict the endwalker healing meta!

[Sebazy]

WHM will be meta for progression as well as probably the go-to healer for when your party is ready to try for solo heal clears.

WHM has historically struggled with solo heals in Savage and Ultimate thanks to lacking group mitigation options. AST will continue to be the leader here thanks to Neutral sect and a mighty MP economy.

[Acece]

Ast + most damaging healer (or 2nd if ast is top DPS). Ast free healing is just too powerful to ever give up especially since they can solo heal everything.

[WaxSw]

I think AST/SGE or AST/SCH, I'm more inclined towards AST/SGE because Sch having to drop 100 potency for every non recitation Aetherflow heal may hurt it in the long run while Sge can basically use all of its heals for free, in the end it all depends on how chain stratagem scales, if it does really well Ast/Sch may be the meta but if I'm honest even if that's the situation I hope not many players raid with Sch so SE can finally see they need to add changes to the class

Whm is pretty much dead tho

[Mortex]

this why scholar/ast needs have tool kit nerfed hard. cause white mage never be added to the meta

Ast/scholar... Ast/sage meta

white mage is trash always be trash dont expect it to be in any savage cause not viable at all

It’s just the problem that they try to have white mage be the new player friendly healer. If they would do some minor tweaks on the abilities whm has now it would actually be pretty decent. Give assize 2 charges so you aren’t force to press it on cd. Make lilybell 2 minutes, make it that bension can crit and make lily spells ogcd. These changes would make the job so much stronger that it is now. Also change thin air from 1 spell to 10 seconds with 2 charges, giving you options were you use it in fights and not like a maniac on cd or you run out of mana.

[Mansion]

I'm of the mindset that raid buffs are always the way to go for the min-maxing meta, so AST/SCH in theory. SCH's buff being less important in early crit stats, SGE might shine there (also because the Media Tour build makes it quite strong).
WHM is seemingly fine but I don't think its Glare potency can make the difference, rDPS wise.
And in terms of healing kits, it's difficult to predict without knowing much about the amount of actual healing needed. But I do feel what we know of WHM's Lilybell is a bit underwhelming / very niche compared to AST's rain of stars thing, or SGE stacks of shields spell.


The big unknown is if we are to see encounter design changes that would make a difference in how we rank healers. Because currently it is all about oGCD heals and DPS. But if we are to GCD heal more, perhaps things could change.

[Halfgeeek]

I'm of the mindset that raid buffs are always the way to go for the min-maxing meta, so AST/SCH in theory. SCH's buff being less important in early crit stats, SGE might shine there (also because the Media Tour build makes it quite strong).

This. Other players like their healers to be their DPS buffer too. As long as there's enough healing power to clear, at the end of the day, its 6 other players vs 2 healers.

AST + SCH.

AST is really strong in EW. Best of both worlds with their keeping Neutral Sect frankly, almost not fair for other healers.

[Mortex]

Hey Vicotria,

Why nerf 2 Jobs instand of buffing one Job? WHM have there Fanbase (I dont mean Mortex xP He's a WHM traitor who will play sage C: )
I belive a lot of Player use the white magic anyways. And the contant is not so hard to say WHM is not allowed to use. If you make speedkills not but that is not the Point here! Funfact 85% of the toolkit from Sage is the toolkit from the SCH. xD
The Point is like "NERF EVERY HEALER TO MAKE WHITEMAGE GREAT AGAIN!!!"

The question is what is the EW Meta in your Opinion? And not what Healer Jobs should be destroy to comes your wishes meta comes true!
So the Doomspeaking here should stop till the end of the Dragonwarsong or the first Pada. Raid.

I’m a whm traitor since end stormblood…… the job just gets punched in the nuts every expansion. We both know people either play whm because it’s shiny and so “beautiful”, they are masochistic or some people are die hard whm player. I mean of course you still gonna clear every content with every job but why is white mage the only healer getting handicapped by his stigma as new player friendly healer.

[Deceptus]

It's going to be AST/SGE, pretty clear. Unless some major changes are made to WHM/SCH in the 6.1 patch.

[Mansion]

It's going to be AST/SGE, pretty clear. Unless some major changes are made to WHM/SCH in the 6.1 patch.

They can make significant changes between launch and Savage Pandaemonium 4 weeks later though. They did it for 5.0 AST.

[AnotherPerson]

WHM nerfed - may have less healers because people can't spam Cure II anymore without facing repercussions so a brain is required, but overall WHM players will be better as a result.
AST - MP is still really strong, so people will probably pick this even if they can't use the delayed skills well, because they can just spam Benefic II.

New Meta is AST/SCH or AST/SGE.
SCH if encounter design changes to be movement heavy for safety and for chain strategem. SGE for something a bit more than just Broil Spam and for high-mobility team compositions.