Quote Originally Posted by Ransu View Post
I rarely see AST or SCH in crystal....if anything the only time I see them is when there's two healers on a team and the other healer is ALWAYS a WHM, just like 90% of my matches that have tank/healer combos are damn near always war and whm. I'm usually thrown off when I see a DRK or a GNB.
Maybe it's different on Aether? On Crystal, you are almost guaranteed to see SCH or AST in any game with healers, and WHM is honestly tied with SGE for second most common. I get more SCH AST teams (playing SCH primarily) than I do any other combo. Hell, sometimes I get 3-healer teams. If it's AST SCH WHM we might as well pack it in and AFK in spawn because we have no pressure - but if it's SGE? Baby, we got a stew going.

WHM doesn't suck. But it is *substantially* weaker against high skill players. People that know not to stack up, that keep an eye on enemy party list for buffs/LB gauge, that know not to overextend and put themselves in a position where sheep (before or after another CC effect) could result in them dying. I think that you ride WHM to easy wins as you're going through the lower tiers, where low skill players are more common, but as you get into Diamond and Crystal, you should consider flexing to the other healers as all three of them perform better against high skill players than does WHM.