SCH is a broken job, Embrava was just a pathetic excuse at redeeming the situation. SCH has gone from disaster to disaster ever since Lv.75 and just because Embrava is an amazing spell doesn't mean it's not the biggest disaster yet.
I'm sure a lot of jobs suffered during the cap rise, but SCH certainly got hit hard. SE had absolutely no vision for SCH going forward and it damn sure showed. They started off with Libra and Animus, promptly dropped that train of thought leaving us with some pathetic abilities and a completely unbaked idea, which sadly wasn't a bad idea. Enmity control could have been a useful avenue to go down, Lv.99 could have meant stronger monsters that you'd actually want a definitive tank for, all of that sure disappeared fast. Short of stuff that SCH was obviously going to get (5th Stratagem, tV nukes, etc), SCH really didn't get anything until Embrava. SE had absolutely no idea what they wanted to do with SCH and they effectively looked at the job, realized everything about it was a joke and decided to make Tabula Rasa into the most overpowered ability ever. I wont say that didn't fix the issue, because it did and SCH is now integral to most endgame events, but I will say it was a woefully idiotic fix. Really mirrors their fix to the Modus exploit so if anything at least they're consistently bad at fixing their screw ups. Honestly, this would have been less of a colossal fuck up if they didn't proceed to announce several months later that every job would be getting new 2Hrs. Right, so... Instead of giving the job something balanced that it can actually use without becoming the most important thing in the game, you decided to give it an update which could easily have been pushed back until every other job is getting the same update? Though in hindsight I guess they needed to release Embrava early because it would be impossible to do half the endgame content without it.
All that said, SCH isn't that broken, Modus and Libra are stupid but they're not game changing. If anything is to blame it is the content they release, SCH would have been fine in Abyssea if they did the logical thing and made Helices a stagger (and not promptly lowered their level). Enmity control would have been a perfectly valid role if they made enmity matter and didn't give everyone the potential to tank with limitless temporary items. If content didn't require every job, when in actuality you only need a single party, bringing a competent SCH instead of a BLM or WHM would be reasonable. Maybe if we weren't flooded with temporary items MP efficiency would still be something that is actually desirable. SE is terrible at balancing content and something like Nyzul Isle is a shining testament to that. In a game with 20, going on 22 jobs, events like Nyzul should not require specific jobs to barely complete it. No matter what job you bring to an event like Nyzul Isle, you should have a reasonable attempt at beating it (within reason of course, bringing 6 BRDs would just be ridiculous). With something like PD and Embrava already in the game though, I don't see this trend changing any time soon. I'd love to be wrong but as usual I'm probably not, that new mole event looks nothing like Nyzul, does it?
Honestly, I'm amazed I can be this bitter about my favorite job being given the best spell in the game. I hope all the new 2Hrs will be just as good as Embrava simply to balance out the issue, but from what I remember hearing at the VanaFest, it doesn't sound like it.
As for suggesting things for SCH, give it up (delicious irony!). Modus is never going to be fixed, Libra will forever be worthless and even if they do, Embrava is always going to eclipse anything they'll ever do for SCH. Short of removing it from the game completely, SCH is done. New merits is the last substantial adjustment this job will see and unless one of them enhances the potency of enhancing spells, no one will care because it does nothing for Embrava. Come 2013, GEO and RNC will be getting 99% of the job adjustment space and a job like SCH which is already perfect thanks to a single spell would be lucky to even be remembered by SE. Again, I'd love to be wrong but I'm not, SCH specifically hasn't had a significant adjustment since getting Embrava and pretty much the last time the community reps graced these halls with their presence and news from the development team it was about Embrava. Though I guess that is slightly less significant when they're taking nearly 6 months to adjust Boost.
The OP is almost completely right with their views on Embrava. It's overpowered and if anyone thinks differently, or that it is OK because its a 2Hr spell, they're wrong. The only sense the OP is wrong here is that we don't need a weaker version of Embrava or Kaustra outside of Tabula Rasa, we already have them. Well... Except for native and Accessionable Haste that is. Tabula Rasa was weak therefore Embrava does not make sense though, 2Hrs in general are weak and Embrava goes far beyond making Tabula Rasa less useless. The only adjustment Tabula Rasa needed was "Stratagems do not wear off upon casting", so we wouldn't need to waste 50% of its duration reapplying the damn things, though they tripled the duration of it anyway so whatever. As it is now, Tabula Rasa without Embrava is still above average, Embrava just pushes it into absolutely ridiculous levels.
Honestly, I don't see any reason for Embrava (or Kaustra) to have the duration they do. Nerf them down to the same duration as PD and lets leave it at that, there is no reason for a 2Hr to last nearly 15 minutes. Nyzul Isle will be impossible but its obvious that F100 is meant to be anyway and I'd rather not have every single suggestion or update eclipsed by Embrava. Oh they fixed Modus Veritas? That's great, now cast Embrava. Oh Libra is useful now? That's great, now cast Embrava. Oh you want a new ability? But that would be overpowered, you already have Embrava.
Embrava is the be all and end all of SCH, they can either nerf it, delete it or give every job something on the exact same level. Leaving things as they are is completely unacceptable though.
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