Aura Blast, is it fair? (Feast)

Just want to know if fellow Feast players think its fair SCH being the only healer to not have a healing-based PvP skill as their Job unique.

Aura blast used to be good in lvl 50 frontline when you could just bait ppl and push them off the edge but in feast a 180sec aoe push back is a joke especialy since we only have blizz 2 for cc

Well beside it helps you to get like 1 cast off and only CC a sch has is blizzard 2 its not unfair at all. I mean whm for example has fluid aura/repose/heavy(stone) + as pvp skill sacred prism which basically let you easily keep your team alive for 30sec.

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Originally Posted by TiaHariberux3

Well beside it helps you to get like 1 cast off and only CC a sch has is blizzard 2 its not unfair at all. I mean whm for example has fluid aura/repose/heavy(stone) + as pvp skill sacred prism which basically let you easily keep your team alive for 30sec.

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I think they meant unfair towards the scholars themselves.

They need to give the fairy a unique pvp skill.

Sch already has more skills because of the pet, I think they are also the strongest healer in soloq. Between Aldo and 9x lustrate, no other healer can fight against burst as well as sch.

eso useful skills is rouse, fey wind and fey illumination. Combine them all together for a strong aoe regen. Fey covenant is weak. Eso could use a cc ability like a aoe slow.

SE has recently spoke up about Sch (as well as War) being, possibly, too overpowered. They're actually considering re-adjusting our entire job spectrum with the implementation of the next expansion, in which Sch (and War) will likely see their overall utility nerfed to help balance them with their counterparts. With that said, I wouldn't expect to see anymore serious job adjustments until 4.0. Even if they did do an adjustment, I highly doubt that Sch will be gaining anything additional out of the deal. It would be pointless to buff them now only to nerf them later, especially considering how powerful that job already is.

For anyone who is curious, this was the interview with Yoshi-P: https://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/comme..._needs_to_ask/

The specifics for the job balancing was this part:

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Q5. Now we'd like to get into job balance. Thanks to your careful balancing, there isn't a single job that can't clear all content. We think that is marvelous, but i feel warriors and Scholars are a little..you know?

Y. Not a little...I think they are sticking out when it comes to utility. I'm not comparing jobs with their personal potential, but when you look at the wide range of utility WARs and SCHs can offer, they are just outrageous.

Q. By that, you mean in an 8 man party?

Y. Not specifically an 8 man party. In any sort of party composition, WARs and SCHs can slip themselves through most situations and their seats are guaranteed. When you compare WARs and SCHs to other jobs, you can say there is a bigger container when it comes to playerskill where the job can carry you and that is what troubles me.

Q. Are youg going to touch them in the future?

Y. Not before the expansion and we aren't going to just snipe those two jobs. With the next expansion, we will balance all jobs as a whole including new actions to balance them out. Basically, we'd like to push the other jobs up there, but it's not as simple as buffing the other jobs will equal their strengths so we are still struggling. Systemly and having a pet is what makes it complicated, so we are trying to be careful.

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The changes that they are discussing are not PvP specific, obviously, but everything trickles down. The only question is how far this re-adjustment will go. When it comes to War, I don't think we have much to worry about in PvP. Their Raid utility doesn't amount to much in the arena, so long as their burst remains in-tact. For Sch, though, any changes they make could have much bigger ramifications on how that job preforms in a PvP setting. I don't expect it will be big, but it might make a difference to how sch's handle their responsibilities. For those of you who play as sch, I'd probably keep an eye out for any changes to the job come 4.0. In the meantime, no worries. Just business as usual.

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Originally Posted by TiramisuMacaron

Sch already has more skills because of the pet, I think they are also the strongest healer in soloq. Between Aldo and 9x lustrate, no other healer can fight against burst as well as sch.

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I'sau has the same opinion. But I think that when the ranged DPS bursts the fairy at a correct timing, SCH gets completly inutilized for a few seconds.

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Originally Posted by TiramisuMacaron

Sch already has more skills because of the pet, I think they are also the strongest healer in soloq. Between Aldo and 9x lustrate, no other healer can fight against burst as well as sch.

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100% this.
They may lack CC but they also are far more capable of carrying mistakes that dps make like LoSing their healer.

Used with equal skill I actually don't think any healer is better than the others, the only difference is what you are facing (although I could be totally wrong because Feast is such a joke it's actually hard to tell what matches would feel like if everyone on both sides was good). In my experience SCH does well against heavy burst like BRD/MCH but falls appart against SMN for example.
The problem isn't so much that Aura Blast sucks, but that it, along with Retrogradation are lackluster compared to Sacred Prism. (Although I'll take Retro over Aura Blast any day). But for all the complaints about Sacred Prism being OP, I still feel WHM needs it because unlike the other 2 they only have 2 instant heals, both of which are on long cooldowns. It would probably be better to boost/change Retro and Aura Blast rather than to nerf Prism.

I think SCH is OP now because the current MM is a joke... As a gold healer, the terrible DPS I get in 90% of matches couldn't even break an Aldo, or LB a target without an Aldo. The pressure they exert leaves the sch with a comfortable Aetherflow count the entire game (3-6)... This makes getting kills against a good sch near impossible. I don't think it's as strong if the teams were balanced. Smart opponents just run away from Prisim though, there is always a low ranked dps standing outside of it with B4B up waiting to be killed.

If dps sucks getting kills against any good healer would be hard not just sch.

Pressuring off tertra, bene, and ED is much easier than pressuring off 9x aetherflow

I think scholar is currently the best for Feast in its current form, at least on NA and EU servers. Scholar has a lot of the shorter cool downs that are good enough to keep everyone alive at any period of time than White Mage does. Consistency is always better than short periods of broken, similar to how Machinists and Bards work.

Scholar also has adlo, the large shields are very good in keeping you in a healthy health range while White Mage healing has people jumping up and down very dangerously. Also when a adlo crits it is the best thing in the world even if it over heals. A White Mage crit that over heals means absolutely nothing. Also adlo can mitigate LB from dps classes quite well, Whm can't mitigate those at all.

Another thing is a White Mages reliance on people knowing what sacred prism in the first place. A lot of people just don't know or don't care while a scholar has no such reliance on players knowing what the scholar is doing. Also trying to repose with people that run ten feet to smack a 8 second slept target doesn't seem to show that White Mage can ever use their full potential while a scholar has no such burden.

Also the fact that Summoners aren't that common in feast makes scholars stronger too, they can better deal with burst coming from Blm, bards and mch than a Whm can.

There are other small things I can say about scholars being better than Whm in solo Feast, but what I said above is a basic description of why that is so.

I just wanted some feedback from people I play with from other servers. Thanks guys~ You're the best.