Concerning the PIE buff on SCH/AST, please do not remove it.

I think many of us BLMs do need that piety buff to get over certain MP thresholds, such as an additional Fire cast or continuous cast after Blizzard 3.

Completely agree.
DO NOT REMOVE PIE BUFF.
If anything just add Pie and Mnd to all healers.

Is there any reason they can't set it up so that

Having one healer = MND bonus
having two healers = MND + PIE bonus

I always found it silly that SCH + AST lacks for MND buff but taking PIE away from AST + WHM isn't the solution.

If they did they'd rework it so it's not a loss.

Why are you relying on a AST/SCH to give you Piety when you can meld it yourself? Let alone the fact that you virtually have an infinite MP pool.

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Originally Posted by Hontaro

I think many of us BLMs do need that piety buff to get over certain MP thresholds, such as an additional Fire cast or continuous cast after Blizzard 3.

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Why not add PIE with your attributes or materia, if they changed it?

As someone who runs AST/SCH without a BLM in my static, I would welcome this change

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Originally Posted by Eidolon

Is there any reason they can't set it up so that

Having one healer = MND bonus
having two healers = MND + PIE bonus

I always found it silly that SCH + AST lacks for MND buff but taking PIE away from AST + WHM isn't the solution.

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Personally, I'd like to see it so that you can choose which bonus you will bring a party. A BLM, theoretically, could bring a PIE bonus instead of INT if they chose. - Or a WAR could bring STR instead of VIT (say you had PLD/WAR/NIN/BRD/SMN/BLM, no str buff currently) etc.

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Originally Posted by Eidolon

Is there any reason they can't set it up so that

Having one healer = MND bonus
having two healers = MND + PIE bonus

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It's way too simple and reasonable for this game.

You know what would fix everything?

Diurnal sect=MND Bonus
Noct sect=PIE bonus

This may be hard to code however, I dunno.

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Originally Posted by FoxyAreku

You know what would fix everything?

Diurnal sect=MND Bonus
Noct sect=PIE bonus

This may be hard to code however, I dunno.

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That's not a good solution, it would mean you would take double AST anyways, because cards and both party bonuses. There's no reason to take a SCH or WHM for that because you've got cards on your side as well as the buffs each sect rewards, both as a self-buff and a party buff.

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Originally Posted by ErryK

That's not a good solution, it would mean you would take double AST anyways, because cards and both party bonuses. There's no reason to take a SCH or WHM for that because you've got cards on your side as well as the buffs each sect rewards, both as a self-buff and a party buff.

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I can't tell if this is a joke post or not. If that's true then why aren't people doing it already since lots of groups run SCH/AST with no mind buff?

Two ASTs is probably the worst composition a raid group could possibly have with low DPS and cards not stacking as well as very few healing cooldowns. Scholar is OP and basically mandatory in every raid group at the moment, card buffs don't even make up for the DPS you're losing from scholar dots+consistent selene buff, so what you speak of would never happen.