OMG Give us an AOE heal that is not worthless!

[Soukyuu]

The issue is too many people trying to play SCH like a WHM.

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So yes, if you fall behind in damage it'll be harder to catch up. The idea is to never fall behind. Be proactive. SCHs are about preventing and mitigating damage. If you try to play one like a WHM, you're gonna have a bad time, and that's not the class's fault, it's you're own.

IMHO, this post pretty much sums it up. Once I stopped playing SCH as a WHM, I started having less troubles keeping people's hp up. Succor/Adloquium before the battle sets up a barrier that lets you pause your healing thus not generating enmity in the initial phase when the tank is still grabbing aggro. Too many adds? Sacred Soil, Rouse and Eye for an Eye. Not to mention you get a 20% chance for a free Succor with it, which also makes it an ideal tool if the party takes unexpected damage.



Succor -> Physick on targets that need it most + fairy healing -> Succor has saved my life more times than I can count already.

Adloquium is pretty much cure ii that SCHs can't cast for free. Having succor alone as an answer for AOEs is a problem with the way shields work.

Considering the insane MP generation abilities, you hardly need a free Cure II. You do get Succor for free if you cast Sacred Soil though. Pre-cast that before an AoE and you get a 10% damage reduction + shields. Of course you can only cast it 3 times in a row, but that's what strategy is for.

You don't need a scholar.

You do always need at least one whitemage.

Two WHMs are more likely to run out of MP than a WHM and a SCH. Once they do, you wipe. A SCH won't run out of MP, and will save MP for the WHM in the process.

"Warrior is support tank, not main tank". We know where this BS argument goes.

Do we? Remeber WAR being the main tank and PLD sulking in a corner? Now it's the opposite. Depending on balancing, that might change again. So might SCH vs WHM