Omni-Gearing for Healer Jobs

If you play multiple healers in high-end content, you may want a gearset that can be shared between them with minimal loss. The ideal set for your purposes should depend on how often you play each healer and your expected raid environment.

If you have a clear favorite for the tier and you do not play other healers in a serious capacity, it is perfectly acceptable to use the specialized best-in-slot (BiS) of your preferred healer on all healers. Most healer BiS sets are extremely similar. Sage is sometimes an exception because it does not scale as well with Spell Speed, and Scholar is sometimes an exception because it scales better with Spell Speed.

These buttons will take you to each job's specialized BiS pages.

Note: Raid weapons for healers typically have the same secondary stats. To avoid cluttering the page, these omni-gearsets are mostly listed using a single job. Unless otherwise noted, the overall stats are the same regardless of the job.

For the most part, omni-healer sets are defined by whether or not you want a Scholar-friendly set. Scholar is the one healer that genuinely cares a lot about specific GCD tiers for cooldown alignment. Sets with poor alignment can cause Aetherflow and/or Chain Stratagem to naturally drift, which has the potential to be very detrimental. White Mage and Sage do not have cooldowns that are as punishing to drift. Astrologian has Lightspeed to guarantee instant casts for burst windows, which limits Divination drift to a fairly acceptable amount, even with the worst possible alignment.

Astrologian, White Mage, and Sage share the same highest DPS set this tier. If you do not play Scholar (or if you do not mind that the alignment for Scholar is egregious), this set is perfect.

Clicking the title of the set will open the full sheet, which will allow you to compare the expected DPS performance of each set on each healer.

If you want to play Scholar in any serious capacity, you will want to use a set that is designed specifically for Scholar.

This set performs only slightly worse on the other healers, and it offers perfect alignment for Aetherflow and Chain Stratagem. Clicking the title of the set will open the full sheet, which will allow you to compare the expected DPS performance of each set on each healer.

This is the highest DPS set for Scholar, and it performs better for Astrologian than the 2.40 set, but it performs worse than the 2.40 set for White Mage and Sage. If you primarily play Astrologian and Scholar and you are comfortable with a fast GCD, this set is a great option. It has good alignment for Aetherflow and only slightly awkward alignment for Chain Stratagem. The amount of natural Chain Stratagem drift is generally considered to be within acceptable levels.

This set's faster GCD will make it easier to run out of MP if you have to cast multiple raises or do a lot of GCD healing, so it may not be ideal in less organized environments, such as Party Finder groups.

Clicking the title of the set will open the full sheet, which will allow you to compare the expected DPS performance of each set on each healer.