Your claim: "SCH/WHM > AST/WHM"
Your proof: An AST/SCH parse where the SCH has higher healing throughput. And then a bunch of other AST/SCH parses. No SCH/WHM parses beating out AST/WHM.
The logic gap: WHM's contribution is literally throughput. Adding throughput to throughput accomplishes nothing which is literally the entire problem WHM faced in Creator. More throughput was pointless.
The contradicting evidence: Literally every fight in the tier has a WHM/AST pairing killing faster than the fastest SCH/WHM pairing. If SCH/WHM were so clearly superior, they'd have squeaked out a kill at least once faster than the far inferior WHM/AST.
Linking me throughput won't change that. SCH/AST was the optimal comp. WHM/AST was still better than SCH/WHM, because whatever throughput you lost from the fairy was negated by WHM having overkill throughput in the first place.
If you want me to be clearly wrong, bring some receipts for your actual claim of superiority. The entire problem with balance is that, in Creator, it was so stupidly broken it rendered any actual healing obsolete because AST/anything > 2x non-AST.
There won't be any fflogs because any competent player at that lvl would quit whm and went ast. You can argue all you want but when all
You're making an argument that SCH/WHM doesn't bring something that AST/WHM does. When SCH/WHM brings superior healing/mitigation and allows both healers to dps. In a speed run group yeah its all about the balances, so the argument about AST/WHM vs WHM/SCH is stupid since none of those comp exist in a serious speed run comp.
if you had a choice between HW Noct AST/WHM vs WHM/SCH, the whm/sch group wins hands down due to all the tools that sch bring that are unique to the class. Balance is nice and all but its not the greastest thing in the world. Nor does it allow both healers to only cast less than 15-20 gcd heals a fight. What else does a noct ast bring? Collective? Disable? These are no where near close to the combined functions of fey wind, sacred, and super virus. And then the gap even wider when you bring in efficient healing with sch having access to rouse + whispering, indom, and lustrate.
I can't find the post but bok summarizes why sch was so broken in HW
https://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/comm...an_fc_mate_who_thinks_that/ddvfjz7/?context=3
Lets analyze what HW sch brought. A fairy that does a mass amount of the raid healing via rouse + whispering, super virus, sacred soil, fey cov that provides raid wide magic def and fey illum ?
In HW the mandatory classes you have to had or else you were seriously gimping your raid was WAR/SCH. AST was nice to have but is no where close to importance as a SCH. I can tell you a vast majority of the top level players agree that SCH was straight up mandatory and they would rather have SCH/WHM than Noct AST/WHM.
Just out of curiosity, what is your experience in raiding in Creator?
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So yeah its a no brainer why sch got nerfed when it came to their efficient healing. It was just completely broken. AST healing is no where near close to where sch were in HW, the only thing ast need adjusted is balance.
