Advantages of WHM over SCH?

[abeltensor]

I am not sure what everyone expects of the pixie...
I find the AI just fine (for now at least).
It is really important to place the pixie to the correct place and not just have it hover behind your arse where it will only heal you and maybe the rogue BLM that comes stand next to you.
In Titan fight, place it next to the tank and when it gets knocked back, put it back there!
Also who said Succor sucks?!
I always cast Succor before and middle of Titan Stomps to give that extra HP buffer for everyone - it makes a difference.

Succor becomes unusable in Coil and the fairy AI becomes horribly apparent as you try to do coil as well since about 1/3rd of your heals are tied to this little beast. The fact that you cant directly control it completely nor have it focus one specific target makes it very hard indeed.

[Kyomih]

abeltensor - are you aware that if you edit a post you don't have a post count? No need to make countless new posts. Just edit your original post to add everything you wanted to add.

[Frantz]

Some of my thoughts to combat the Scholar h8rs up in hurr.

I'm not sure what the issue with the fairy is. You can easily put her heal ability on your hot-bar and macro it to a button or click so you get her heal and your heal going off on the same target at once The fairy is also great at just healing yourself, a problem that many healers run into when there's a lot of AoE damage going out because we, as a role in MMOs, always have a tendency to heal ourselves last and get ourselves killed that way.

How is 10% damage reduction in an AoE -low-? If this game had talent trees and, as a healer, you had a talent that would reduce damage taken in an AoE by 10% would you skip it because 10% is low? I really don't think so.

20% instant health back from Lustrate is also pretty amazing considering it doesn't cost mana and doesn't have a cast bar.

SCHs can also get Stoneskin and Cleric stance for deeps.

[Nimb]

50 SCH / 50 WHM in the coil here.
I'm not quiet sure where some of the negativity toward the SCH is coming from. I have nothing bad to say about either healer.

The Fairy? If you are having problems with your fairy I can only say you are doing it wrong. I have two separate fairy macros. One of these tells my fairy to heal my target and to go into guard mode immediately afterwards. I spam this macro while healing. No matter what I'm healing. This saves my fairies cool downs for when I want to use them and it makes her heal my target and only my target about 90% of the time. I should put in here that I disable this macro with a profile swap on my mouse with it is not needed. Another words on fights where having it randomly heal who it feels like is more beneficial or when someone I don't want to target needs a heal is near by.

Succor? If you feel as though its not doing enough try something new. Apply Succor before the AOE hits and then again immediately afterwards. With this rotation i'm increasing my party members HP pool by 400hp. Not a lot but its enough.

Energy Drain - Someone on here talked about not having time to switch targets? Really? /ac "Energy Drain" <tt> mana on the go people.

Big heals / Burst heals - We don't have mana issues unless we are failing. I can honestly say if I run out of mana I have personally failed somewhere during the fight. Even with spamming our "cure II" (ablahblahque whatever its called) and succor you should not run out of mana. With getting up to almost a 10% crit chance now for my SCH I see crits on my "Cure II" going through more and more. That makes this ability mitigate 3k-4.5k hp depending on the fight, tank and buffs. Typically if I just critted for 1-1.5 and put a shield on for 2-3k I will do a physick to top them off then start casting my shield again. Mana = no worries big heals... yeah we got em.
Physic - Non-crit no buffs 1000ish +- 100
Adloquem(or what ever) Non-Crit no buffs 800 +- 50 shield 800 +-50
Fairy Non-Crit no buffs 600 +-50
Without critting and buffs thats 800+800+600=2200+-150 in a 3 sec cast window.
as soon as we count in buffs and crits your looking at Adloquem: 1250 +-250 with a shield of 2500 +-500 and a fairy healing for 900 +-50 without crits that is 1250+2500+900= 4650 +-800 in a 3 sec cast window. If we take the low end of the heal here we're talking about adding an extra 2k hp onto the targets hp pool. WHM stoneskin on a tank with 7k hp only gives them 1260 hp!

The biggest thing to remember is that the tank or whom ever does not have to have received this much damage to have the damage mitigated! Another words we do this much healing / mitigation without alot of overheal taking place.

The biggest area where SCH drops down is Mass AOE heals / Regens. That's pretty well it. So my solution partner with a WHM. I typically try and keep the WHM in our raids on what ever they can that doesn't require them to change targets as much. I'll float around a bit if you will because I can do alot of heal them move then heal then move without skipping a beat.



Benediction / Lustrate - Here I have to say I'm going to choose not to directly compare them only because I use them for different things.
Benediction? I've messed up and need to fix it. Or at least someone messed up and it has to be fixed. That's pretty well what it is for.
Lustrate? I'm on a fight that requires chain healing and something made me move at an inopportune moment. So basically I use it the exact same way I use swiftcast + cure2. If like last night we had weird lag spikes I can spam it 3 times in a row. It costs me mana to do this because it uses up aetherflow charges that could be used for energy drain, but them's the breaks.

So either way you look at it I don't see the negatives. Just differences. Remember I have no complaints about the WHM either. I just didn't see any need to defend them since they are covered in that department.