Try both! You'll need CNJ up to 15 anyway to unlock the SCH job, and you can share almost all the gear between the two save weapons and shields!
As for the differences? Well, CNJ/WHM is more your standard straight-up healer. Standard heals of varying strengths, a few AoE heals, and Regen. Their panic button - Benediction - is a straight up full heal. You also get a bunch of procs to boost the effectiveness of your heals.
You also get the awesome AoE damage-and-stun spell Holy, along with a DoT in Aero I/II and straight damage in Stone. Not to mention Fluid Aura, which does a decent bit of damage and shoves an enemy away from you. Plus you get an enmity reducer and MP regen in a single button.
I probably missed some of the finer details, but I don't actually WHM heal at all. So let me move to the one I use.
SCH, on the other hand, is a mitigation healer. You only have one basic heal in Physick, and no straight AoE heal. Instead, you get Adloquium and Succor, a single and AoE heal respectively that heals for a weaker amount than the comparable CNJ/WHM heal but also gives them a shield that will absorb an equal amount of damage (or more, in the case of an Adlo on a target below... 20%?). You have a more multipurpose "panic button" in your Aetherflow stacks, either doing a flat percentage heal with Lustrate or dropping a Sacred Soil shield to further mitigate damage.
Not to mention your Fairy. Your Fairy is effectively a secondary healer, and the two of you more or less add up to a WHM in healing power. With Eos you get an AoE regen, and with Selene you get a spell speed buff. However, to make the most use of them requires some micromanaging or you'll have Eos popping off a Whispering Dawn at the start of a pull. I love referring to her as "lag-protective healing", though, since she will continue to heal even if you can't due to lag.
SCH DPS is actually rather good, if you keep your DoTs refreshed. Your summon obviously doesn't DPS and you're missing a couple of the key abilities from SMN, but switching to Cleric Stance (an ability you get from CNJ that switches your MND and INT stats and increases damage at the cost of healing) and spreading around your toxic love can mean some decent damage numbers. Not to mention that one of your Aetherflow abilities both does damage and recovers your MP.
EDIT:
Sniped due to my overly wordy reply, haha! Though...
I thought the required secondary class for WHM was THM, not ACN? So you might have to level Black Mage Lite a little anyway to unlock WHM.
As for the differences? Well, CNJ/WHM is more your standard straight-up healer. Standard heals of varying strengths, a few AoE heals, and Regen. Their panic button - Benediction - is a straight up full heal. You also get a bunch of procs to boost the effectiveness of your heals.
You also get the awesome AoE damage-and-stun spell Holy, along with a DoT in Aero I/II and straight damage in Stone. Not to mention Fluid Aura, which does a decent bit of damage and shoves an enemy away from you. Plus you get an enmity reducer and MP regen in a single button.
I probably missed some of the finer details, but I don't actually WHM heal at all. So let me move to the one I use.
SCH, on the other hand, is a mitigation healer. You only have one basic heal in Physick, and no straight AoE heal. Instead, you get Adloquium and Succor, a single and AoE heal respectively that heals for a weaker amount than the comparable CNJ/WHM heal but also gives them a shield that will absorb an equal amount of damage (or more, in the case of an Adlo on a target below... 20%?). You have a more multipurpose "panic button" in your Aetherflow stacks, either doing a flat percentage heal with Lustrate or dropping a Sacred Soil shield to further mitigate damage.
Not to mention your Fairy. Your Fairy is effectively a secondary healer, and the two of you more or less add up to a WHM in healing power. With Eos you get an AoE regen, and with Selene you get a spell speed buff. However, to make the most use of them requires some micromanaging or you'll have Eos popping off a Whispering Dawn at the start of a pull. I love referring to her as "lag-protective healing", though, since she will continue to heal even if you can't due to lag.
SCH DPS is actually rather good, if you keep your DoTs refreshed. Your summon obviously doesn't DPS and you're missing a couple of the key abilities from SMN, but switching to Cleric Stance (an ability you get from CNJ that switches your MND and INT stats and increases damage at the cost of healing) and spreading around your toxic love can mean some decent damage numbers. Not to mention that one of your Aetherflow abilities both does damage and recovers your MP.
EDIT:
Sniped due to my overly wordy reply, haha! Though...
(02-12-2015, 12:12 PM)Unnamed Mercenary Wrote: edit: I should note, you have to play both CNJ and ACN to unlock either WHM or SCH.
I thought the required secondary class for WHM was THM, not ACN? So you might have to level Black Mage Lite a little anyway to unlock WHM.
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