So.. who's leveling a SCH?

[Eriane]

^ THIS !!!!

Your lack of faith in your job ( or expertise ?) has to be low to have you to flip the switch and hop on the bandwagon because they MODIFIED medica II ( they did not technically nerf it per say ). And holy well .. let's face it, it's not the end of the world, we're not pure DPS. I'd QQ a LOT more if I'd be a bard or a smn though. Some classes had it a lot more rough than we did.

I'm concerned about the reading comprehension of people here.

Just cuz i'm lazy and i really don't feel like explaining again.

What you fail to grasp is that sch were fine, borderline better in the first place before changes.
A sch microing the fairy would put many whm to shame in effectiveness in coil. Lest we forget that t5 in particular seems to favor sch mechanics, like lustrate not being affected by healing debuffs. This is not about player skill, it is about the toolkit and mana/threat management.

Now with pet fixes sch is even easier to manage. Whm raid healing is not what was nerfed, the mana efficiency and threat is what took a hit. And both were bad to begin with compared to sch. What was buffed was whm burst aoe healing (which still requires a raid to stack) which isn't even required in turn 1-5.

And i'm pretty sure i said i wasn't throwing my whm away, rather i intend to level another healing class that shares most of my gear that got some nice fixes and a buff this patch.

[Taerra]

a potency of 100 over 15 seconds or 50 over 30 is the exact same ending results. It might change the course of the fight or it's use slightly, but the end result is the same. Besides, WHM is not my main for coil, blm is, and I'm still at the start so I can't comment on T4-T5 from any perspective. I'm just using maths here, the final potency on medica is exactly the same. The pratical side of it is different, i'll grant you that.

[Eriane]

a potency of 100 over 15 seconds or 50 over 30 is the exact same ending results. It might change the course of the fight or it's use slightly, but the end result is the same. Besides, WHM is not my main for coil, blm is, and I'm still at the start so I can't comment on T4-T5 from any perspective. I'm just using maths here, the final potency on medica is exactly the same. The pratical side of it is different, i'll grant you that.

The end result changes not because of the potency but the duration.

Regardless of whether or not the initial aggro generated by the casting of the new Medica 2 is less than the old the overheal will change that.

No one is going to leave a raid damaged and let medica 2 tick for 30 secs to get the healing out of it and avoid overhealing. The raid will be topped off either by necessity from you or the sch and the fairy healing.

Medica 2 generated extra threat from overhealing usually because the raid got topped off with either medica, succor or whispering dawn but it was a few ticks. Having a 30 sec heal will mean that it will tick longer on a fully topped off raid and not just be a waste but a threat generator. Just because the hot is longer and weaker doesn't mean you can afford to just let the raid sit.

In other games having hots rolling usually was a good thing because threat really wasn't an issue. This game punishes overhealing. Unless they remove the threat from hots its just going to make threat managment difficult.

Still lazy.

[Calypsx]

Playing the job you enjoy the most is usually the most effective way to go about things.

If you follow the flavor of the month you're just going to get mad when things are changed again.

[Eriane]

Playing the job you enjoy the most is usually the most effective way to go about things.

If you follow the flavor of the month you're just going to get mad when things are changed again.

A: If se turns ff14 into a fotm game, i won't bother to get mad, i'll play a new game.

B. I enjoy being effective and the current sch toolkit (with fairy fixes) is very effective in content i care about, like twintania. I honestly couldn't care less if new ilvl 80 content requires 5 whm with medica 2.

[AishaK]

( snip. ;x)

Well using your restaurant comparison. we healers went to the grand opening of the 2.1 restaurant the whm's ordered delicious white mage tartare. Scholars of course ordered scholar burgers. The chef Yoshi comes out and presents the meal, at first look everything seems alright. Then suddenly cries ring out across the gathering of healers, the whm's have discovered that on top of their delicious dinner the chef has spat a phlem covered projectile into the food.

the scholars on the other hand discover the burger to be extremely juicy with imported buns. At this point a racket breaks loose, half the scholars sympathize and demand the chef be held accountable, the other half tell the white mages that their food is perfectly fine bile and all to eat their meal and shut up. some white mages do just that, others quit the restaurant entirely in disgust. Finally a last group orders the burger

[Calypsx]

A: If se turns ff14 into a fotm game, i won't bother to get mad, i'll play a new game.

B. I enjoy being effective and the current sch toolkit (with fairy fixes) is very effective in content i care about, like twintania. I honestly couldn't care less if new ilvl 80 content requires 5 whm with medica 2.

Well I play certain jobs for thematic reasons. Scholar was one of my favorite jobs look wise in ff3 and lore wise. They can be a tank or a dps even and I would still play them, I just find them cool really. So if they were nerfed into the ground, I would still pick them. Since they are essentially one of my favorites.

Not everyone feels the same, but I find it helps me still enjoy said class even if things turn for the worse.

[Keltronica]

You said you liked pro-active healing more anyway. Sch seems more up your ally to begin with. Its your personal preference not necessarily one class being better over another. You bring up several points on how SCH is clearly the better class than whm, but when you get down to it - you enjoy pro-active rather than reactive and SCH is a pro-active class.

I really like the idea of scholar, but I personally play it very shittily. It doesn't really click with me like whm does. That doesn't mean that SCH is a bad class, or that whm is a superior class. It just means that I play a whm better so I prefer it, it could also mean im an awful player lol! I think the two classes complement each other very well. at the moment, I feel my sch partner and i both pull our own weight in coil. I dunno how she feels lol, but I am happy with how its turned out so far. I've played with some stellar scholars and some pretty awful ones, so it mostly comes down to the player not the class.

[Eriane]

You said you liked pro-active healing more anyway. Sch seems more up your ally to begin with. Its your personal preference not necessarily one class being better over another. You bring up several points on how SCH is clearly the better class than whm, but when you get down to it - you enjoy pro-active rather than reactive and SCH is a pro-active class.

Yes, and with the fairy changes i'm really hoping i'll enjoy sch. The only reason i say the sch is borderline better in the first place is certain fights require proactive healing regardless of class. And the sch toolkit is better suited to handle that.

[Keltronica]

Yes, and with the fairy changes i'm really hoping i'll enjoy sch. The only reason i say the sch is borderline better in the first place is certain fights require proactive healing regardless of class. And the sch toolkit is better suited to handle that.

Yeah the first thing i thought of while trying to figure out sch was how to manage my pet... my dumb fairy was out of control. she ran up and tried to attack ifrit as soon as i zoned into bowl of embers. we've had a rocky relationship since then.