Quote Originally Posted by Renathras View Post
WHM's kit is FAR more straightforward than SCH's is. Let's have a scenario:

Party is at ~50% health, one member at around 20% with a vuln stack, incoming large raidwide (let's say Ex5 going into that "ultimate" he casts when he first summons the dragon and you just raised a party member who got aced by Gales 1 - ask me how I know this scenario...): On WHM, you have 1 Lily, Plenary, Asylum, Benediction, 1 charge of Benison, Aquaveil, and Temperance up. On SCH, Soil is on CD, you have 2 Aetherflow charges and everything else is off CD and available. What do you do? You have about 4.5 seconds, or 1 and 1/2 GCDs to act.

In any case, I suppose it depends on how one defines challenge, but if one defines it at least partially by "having to choose intelligently between various options" (which arguably is part of it), then SCH is at a buffet while WHM is deciding between which 2 of 4 sides they want with their standard dinner. WHM's toolbox consists of two screwdrivers and a dozen hammers of various sizes, while SCH's has only one hammer, but quite a few other types of tools.
As WHM, I'd PI, Rapture, doubleweave Temperance and Bene on the stack guy. You say 'one and a half GCDs' so you're not getting a second cure 3 in there. As SCH, I'd probably go for Adlo (on stackman), Deploy, Ruin2 (instacast so we can squeeze it in), doubleweave Recitation into Indom. Alternatively, Ruin2, Excog (on stackman), Expedient, Ruin2, Recit, Indom (this would land after the first hit of the attack, but the party would still be alive) The initial hit of the attack and the final hit are the damaging ones, the inbetween only hits for like 5k per tick, which gives more time than you'd think to put up mit and such. And if the idea in the hypothetical is that the guy ressed 'the moment the first hit is about to go out', then the solution instantly changes to 'ignore his low HP he's got res invuln'

As for the last allegory, it's kinda accurate. WHM has several sizes of hammer, SCH only has one hammer, but several other tools. The problem is, the raids don't ask for a hammer. They say 'tighten this bolt' or 'rivet these things together'. And just as you can't really tighten a bolt with a hammer (well, you kinda could but likely damage the thing), WHM just cannot deal with mitigation checks, it's got Temp and not much else to offer