Which HEALER do you prefer?

[Stryker]

The healer that keeps me alive is the one that I prefer. I have played with a sch and a whm and both are good as long as the player is competent. WHM does have a slight advantage as they get stoneskin and the trait for it while sch has to grind up a conj to 34 to get it. But as a tank I grinded conj to 34 to get it myself so I don't have much gripes about that.

[Glakan]

I always have CNJ at my level ran with mostly Scholars but yeah Healing threat is pretty big in this game I have to be carefull to grab mobs fast before the healer gets them xD

[Bayman]

I dont care if its a summoner throwing heals... keep me alive and you have now become "best healer" till the next healer who can keep me alive through a run.

[chishi]

SCH when I'm on PLD since the damage reduction of PLD makes the most out of the shields (I assume). I also prefer healing PLDs on my SCH. WAR and WHM seem to work nicely together.

Also the less threat from SCH lets me keep up with my DPS on trash pulls.

[Kusumura]

SCH when I'm on PLD since the damage reduction of PLD makes the most out of the shields (I assume). I also prefer healing PLDs on my SCH. WAR and WHM seem to work nicely together.

Also the less threat from SCH lets me keep up with my DPS on trash pulls.

Nope. The shields we Scholars put out are not in any way effected by the mitigation of your stats. Our shields are calculated completely separately and, for all intents and purposes, "Raw," and before any other factors enter. So, they're the first things to take the hit and recieve no other bonuses to their mitigation.

I will say, though, that it'll feel like it since once the shield's down, whatever its remainder blocked + your natural mitigation is a rather lovely feeling.

[Ruminate]

Nope. The shields we Scholars put out are not in any way effected by the mitigation of your stats. Our shields are calculated completely separately and, for all intents and purposes, "Raw," and before any other factors enter. So, they're the first things to take the hit and recieve no other bonuses to their mitigation.

I will say, though, that it'll feel like it since once the shield's down, whatever its remainder blocked + your natural mitigation is a rather lovely feeling.

If its before mitigation, then Adloquiem and Stoneskin are terrible.

Example:
Mob X deals 2k damage.
Tank Y mitigates 60% and takes 800 damage from Mob X.

Before mitigation:
Scholar Z's adloquiem absorbs 600 damage.
Tank Y takes 560 damage from Mob X.

Post mitigation:
Scholar Z's adloquiem absorbs 600 damage.
Tank Y takes 200 damage from Mob X.

I am 99% sure that these skills are post mitigation. The damage absorption is post block/parry, too. I've seen enough attacks that would normally break through adloquiem, get reduced to 0 because of parry.

[Feathery]

Do you have a source for this?

[Rizzo]

Nope. The shields we Scholars put out are not in any way effected by the mitigation of your stats. Our shields are calculated completely separately and, for all intents and purposes, "Raw," and before any other factors enter. So, they're the first things to take the hit and recieve no other bonuses to their mitigation.

I think your info is false.

The shields are, essentially, extra hit points. The shields will be affected by whatever defense/damage mitigation values your character has. Therefore, the shields (both SCH shields via heals and WHM Stoneskin) will get more bang-for-the-buck on a high-defense character versus a low-defense character.

Yes, the shields are the first thing to be subtracted when taking damage; they are just a "buffer" of additional hit points on top of your current hit points. But once the shield is applied, they will be reduced based on your mitigation stats. I have not observed these to be "unmitigated" hit points.

[Feyniphia]

As long as you know what you are doing, I'll love any healers.

[Gorshum]

As a warrior I have to say I really love sch healers so far. They don't pull much threat, their shield is really nice, and their pet has saved my life on more than one occasion when the player wasn't paying attention. Mind you these are just my opinions, I'm not saying anything about the math or this or that, I just find I feel much more secure with scholar healers.