Quote Originally Posted by Nanne View Post
AST seems slightly stronger in higher rated CC matches and I lately see more SGE and AST than WHM. The WHM LB loses a lot of its power once people started to spread out more instead walking in a big pile of 5 for no reason Imp is the strongest part of WHM
AST SCH are dramatically better than WHM at high skill. Both classes substantially shift the numbers in favor of your team with buffs and debuffs and both classes have an extremely strong LB. 120 sec sounds like a lot, but it's really not, especially since it accelerates based on activity. In high skill games, it's very common to get LB long before the fight in mid is really concluded.

WHM's only impactful ability outside of their LB is imping people, and while it's quite good... I wouldn't take it over the kits that AST SCH have. Hell, AST throwing a 3 sec Bind on someone is often a kill - if you cleanse the Bind you'll probably live, but now you can't cleanse the stun about to hit you a few seconds later. If you don't cleanse the Bind, you're going to die (you can also Guard, but no Guard later means you can be burst down.) SCH is a pretty strong counter to any tank reliant on self-healing for sustain (which is all of them, except GNB since they're typically in DPS junction) with Mummification, and is generally just really great at bleeding MP from the enemy team and wearing them down.

Seraph Strike is pretty good, but AST has the best single-target healing in the game with double casting (moderate heal plus weak regen followed by moderate heal plus weak shield, and they can do it back to back if they really need to focus on keeping someone alive) and SCH can constantly spread 4k or 6k shields to their entire party on a lower cooldown than Seraph Strike's Protect buff. And spreading Biolytic among enemy DPS is pretty much the same as 10% vuln down buff.

SGE is really more of a DPS than a healer/support, so they're not really interchangeable here. But their DPS is quite a lot higher than any other healer's. People whined about WHM being able to do 18k+13k+6.6k in their LB combo, but SGE can just casually Phlegma Phlegma Pneuma for 10k+10k+12k plus Haima buff on a 30 sec rotation (15 sec per Phlegma charge and 30 sec for Pneuma) so... yeah...