Pyros
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Not really, because a 2nd healer is actually useful even if he's not healing all the time. There's a lot of healing spikes, where the boss does an unavoidable aoe or spike the tanks or whatever, and that's when the 2nd healer can help. As a scholar, that means Soil to reduce damage, precast succor to absorb damage or Adlo for tanks, Lustrate to instantly heal people/tanks back up, and obviously a 2nd combat rez. Plus the pet isn't shit healing, it's a very solid amount of healing especially if you end up using Eos. Hell Eos could generally rip aggro off the WHM after gigas in T13 with the increased healing buff+HoT.If your Scholar is DPSing most of the time wouldn't you be better off with just another DPS class? I just came back so I am not caught up but we used to solo heal First Coil for 2 and 4. One of our healers would just switch roles but could still roll on healer gear.
The fights are definitely solo healable, but the added difficulty isn't worth the trouble. On the other hand, having 2 full time healers just slows down everything and doesn't help. Mind you, when learning the fights, or on the harder fights, you don't DPS that much. The key becomes maximizing your DPS while still making sure people don't die. On T13 for example I could only do short dot rotations. But that was for our group, I've seen some SCH basically DPS 90% of the fight no problem, depends on who's taking unnecessary damage and the WHM ability to time his heals, avoid overheal and still keep everyone up.
T2 and 4 can't really be compared because they were mostly DPS races. If you killed the boss faster, you'd skip stuff or just handle it better, but they kinda stopped these type of fights by making them longer and less reliant on overall DPS and more on burst DPS. And they made healing a lot more brutal on most fights, with a lot of unavoidable stuff you have to just heal through. Single healing it is a pain.
On a different note, they doubled the poetics cap in this week's patch.