Quote Originally Posted by Fendred View Post
To balance that, it's "cure II" level ability was limited to 3 charges (lustrate). The dynamics between a party with a white mage were different than one with a scholar. A white mage could carry a mediocre party doing wall to wall pulls due to being able to spam cure II if DPS was too slow or the tank didn't have enough mitigation. Scholar was only enough to wall to wall pull if every single person was at the top of their game because their big heals used aetherflow stacks.
This is categorically untrue though.

People initially thought SCH couldn't solo heal Titan HM either. They were quickly wrong, it was just a case of A) Realising that Selene was garbage and B) Learning how to play properly.

Lustrate wasn't the Cure II replacement, Adlo was, the secret with Adlo was that (at least on EU servers at the time) you couldn't spam it back to back as the shield would never take effect thanks to the horrible latency we had back then. Instead the secret was to alternate Adlo and Physic for the most single target healing potency. Couple that with forced and roused fairy healing spam on the tank and you could exceed WHM's single target healing quite considerably. Soil was also a considerable amount of mitigation for trash, even shadow flare had a small damage reduction element via it's Slow proc.

WHMs advantage in early ARR dungeons was that they didn't need to lean so heavily on their dot damage for AoE packs. Thus in dungeons like WP where you either walled off trash or just melted it in seconds Holy was king.

In leveling dungeons or situations where you weren't overgeared thus trash pulls tended to considerably outlast the holy stun window and in turn, lived long enough for Baned dots and shadow flare to do strong damage, SCH wasn't at anything like the sort of disadvantage that you seem to suggest it was. By HW the repeated Holy nerfs actually had SCH as the better dungeon healer.

Quote Originally Posted by Zarkovitch View Post
The problem of healer hate this tier is they have to heal with gcd heals a bleed and it mitigation checks not a healer checks
The bleeds are a pretty good step in the right direction at least. IMHO if they amp those up a little bit more without going OTT on the initial AoE damage I think it'll be a pretty good time.