So, how to make sch not suck so bad compared to whm.

[Seniade]

One thing I'll throw in as far as SCH utility. If you have time and there isn't a SMN in the party, throw out a shadow flare. It doesn't generate much hate but enemies within it are afflicted with an attack speed slow. This is great for reducing the frequency of incoming damage that needs to be healed.

Combined with Eye for an Eye, Virus, Sacred Soil, and the barriers from Adloquium and Succor, SCH is all about minimizing the incoming damage rather than reacting to the damage after the fact.

[Urthdigger]

One thing I'll throw in as far as SCH utility. If you have time and there isn't a SMN in the party, throw out a shadow flare. It doesn't generate much hate but enemies within it are afflicted with an attack speed slow. This is great for reducing the frequency of incoming damage that needs to be healed.

Combined with Eye for an Eye, Virus, Sacred Soil, and the barriers from Adloquium and Succor, SCH is all about minimizing the incoming damage rather than reacting to the damage after the fact.

Small addendum to that: You can't have Sacred Soil and Shadow Flare up at the same time. However, Shadow Flare is still an excellent tool to throw up when you can't use Sacred Soil (Out of charges, or it's on cooldown), or if the tank is facing a swarm of mooks, where the damage may help as well.

[Seniade]

Small addendum to that: You can't have Sacred Soil and Shadow Flare up at the same time. However, Shadow Flare is still an excellent tool to throw up when you can't use Sacred Soil (Out of charges, or it's on cooldown), or if the tank is facing a swarm of mooks, where the damage may help as well.

True, but Sacred Soil only lasts 15s compared to Shadow Flare lasting 30s. I mainly use Sacred Soil to mitigate burst unavoidable damage (Titan's stomps or geocrush, all primals' ultimate moves) and use Shadow Flare for general purpose mitigation so I can save aetherflow charges for Lustrate.