Stoneskin for Scholars, is it necessary?

[Thorauku]

Indeed. And if you can get away without stoneskin, you should be able to get away without swiftcast. What's the point, you have Lustrate right ?

Swiftcast has its different uses. So nope, you can't compare Stoneskin with Swiftcast in terms of usefulness.

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Sorry, but your example was too biased, and full of assumptions. I never had an experience wherein the other healer isn't always free, if that was the case, I think I have personal healing problem, due to the fact that we're supposed to carry each other's role.

During the nails phase with the WHM in the middle casting Medica, and you're there sitting on the side twiddling your thumbs with the Searing debuff, unable to stoneskin your tank

Uhm. I can still cast Adloqium, no?