Sacred soil & Shadow Flare are incompatible

Time: May 29, 2014.
Frequency: Always
World name: Ragnarok
Character name: Daemian Basthion
NPC name: None
Class/level: Scholar/50
Party or solo: Solo
Race: Miqo'te male
In-game time: 3.40 p.m.
Area and coordinates: Mor Drhona (22,27)

Steps:
I simply cast Aetherflow to get three stacks, then I used Sacred Soil and, immediately after, I cast Shadow Flare. Casting the second spell would uncast the effect of the first one (one way or the other: SS > SF; SF > SS)

Thanks in advance.

P.S: If this thread already exists, I'd like to apologize beforehand. I didn't find any thread addressing this bug (at least, in 2014).

Yeah, pretty sure it's intended. But it does suck.

This is intended to prevent SCH from having an advantage over SMN (since SMN doesn't have access to Sacred Soil).

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Originally Posted by Velox

This is intended to prevent SCH from having an advantage over SMN (since SMN doesn't have access to Sacred Soil).

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The thing is... it's another Lv50 that both ARN classes learn (differently to SMN's > Enkindle, or Spur if you prefer since it's Lv45 as Sacred Soil, over SCH's > Sacred Soil).
I mean, would it make sense that SMN's enkindle/spur cancelled the effect of Shadow Flare? It's not like SCH's Shadow Flare would inflict as much damage of that of a SMN, anyways.
Besides, the tooltip does not state that they are incompatible

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Originally Posted by Velox

This is intended to prevent SCH from having an advantage over SMN (since SMN doesn't have access to Sacred Soil).

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Then SMN has advantage over SCH because their Egi's can attack?
Nah, this isn't an acceptable reason.

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Originally Posted by RaphaelDDL

Then SMN has advantage over SCH because their Egi's can attack?
Nah, this isn't an acceptable reason.

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Well, SMN -is- a damage based job...

But, again, SMN's got Physick to heal other characters with... Or Raise. That doesn't make him healer as much as Shadow Flare makes him DPS. But, anyways, the point of this topic is: The tooltip does not state that they are incompatible (not that X class should be deprived of certain skills) and, thus, both would be cast at any time w/o one of them being uncast.

Working as intended.

The bug report, if you want to submit one, should be to fix the tool tips. Not the skills.

Sorry.

Scholars have a choice over offense (Shadow Flare) and defense (Sacred Soil). It's for balance purposes.

Is there any link you guys can provide about former tooltips or have they always been this way? (which would mean an actual response to the way they should work, as SE might have forgotten to state so or they simply derped when adjusting these two spells).

Technically it's because they occupy the same "buff" slot; putting either spell up gives you a buff of the same name for its duration. At first glance you'd say that was an oversight, but it's been this way since the beginning, and since it makes no sense to have a "buff" for Shadow Flare, and since they've made exactly zero changes to it since its inception, I'm going to say this is intentional and was made a buff so as to ensure they are mutually exclusive.

I do not recall the tooltips mentioning they are mutually exclusive at any point, however.

The tooltips definitely should define their exclusivity.