Possibly raiding on SCH now...

I started healing this raid tier on SCH too. I had been playing BRD/MCH in 3.0 raids.

VIT is okay to meld for learning and early progression. If you can be around 21k HP in party with food, that should be comfortable enough. You can go higher VIT, but it is kinda unnecessary unless you want to for fun! :p

Stat wise, just get enough Piety and meet Accuracy cap. Then focus on Crit and Spell Speed since SCH is mostly a damage class. You still heal at times, but not that much unless you have to. DPS is important for SCH, but trying to help your team win is more important! I put Crit and Spell speed on my SCH relic weapon several way back in Midas. I rather put Accuracy on gear, but putting Accuracy on the weapon is okay too. I already have the Alexander weapon so the Relic weapon is kinda of whatever to me.

As long as you Energy Drain enough, keep Aetherflow on CD, and reduce unneeded Succors, you should be okay on MP. You only really run out of MP this raid tier if you have really high Spell Speed, damage-deal and Broil a lot, and have really low Piety (below 550 piety).

Try to always cast something on SCH since the job always allows you to do something. SCH is a very flexible job, so always try to figure out ways to help out your team.

Yep. ~13k MP is pretty comfy this tier (even for AST/WHM) Early progression when we were using almost all-crafted it was a bit tighter on PIE but with gear available now and BiS any SCH should be fine as long as Aetherflow is on CD.

I can probably thank at-least one VIT meld in my first A11S and A12S clears. All it takes is surviving a mechanic and feeling like you walked-on water to make the investment worth it. That breathing room in progression can be very nice. It's always when you don't expect it. As you get closer to i270 you can and likely will shed it off for more ACC melds.

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Originally Posted by Amaret

The gain through accuracy and extra Spellspeed is outdoing the extra WD (which is "only" a difference by 2) by a small margin right now. But will increase with the next upgrades.
And who cares about overall healing? That 50 hp more healing won't help you in any way.

Basically, its the same as with the DRK Sword its just one weapon "tier" lower. Which will change mid June anyway.

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All Alex weapons are +2 WD from their 260 Anima counterparts, as +1 is a heck lot of stat weight (9.128). However I do agree when having A12S on-farm and then basically not seeing the Summon Alexander phase anymore it can be moot point on having "max" healing potential. The Anima is enough for all of Savage.


But we are basically saying the same thing. Just i'm explaining the full story why the Anima can be DPS leader as long as you stat correctly with ACC+SpS. One issue with this build is what most of us have been saying earlier. Having to go all-in with SS melds as well, and are using the anima for bulk of the ACC. So if you want to play other healers in Savage traps you have to compensate.

Then the last point, we don't even know if there will be a 275 Anima step. There never was a i245 step to match the Midas weapon. After Gordias he pretty much said the raid weapon should be the capstone from now on so we can't exactly compare to how things were done in ARR. But who knows, when content drought happens post 3.55 there could be a chance.