Quote Originally Posted by Muahbec View Post
i don't wanna be rude but...are you serious?
Yes, I am serious.

first-i never said that my friend think SS is useless,i said that he don't use it and with that i meant that he can manage to heal everyone and keep them alive without using it
You didn't say that SS was useless. You claimed it was a beautiful skill and expressed sentiment that you wish it was more worth using. I'm in the camp that it is worth using as it is and doesn't need a buff.

And, yes, refusal to use something is the same as considering it to be useless.

second-I never said nothing about trying to be a different job so what's with the "trying to be a different one instead" ?
That was not directed at you. It was directed toward the attitude cropping up in the thread that "a 'pro' Scholar just lets the White Mage heal and spends the entire fight DPSing". The retort to this is naturally "If you want to DPS so bad, be an actual DPS."

third- you probably never played as SCH to understand why i'm so mad at this skill setup.
SCH was my third level 50 job and the reason I leveled Arcanist up in the first place. I personally like Sacred Soil and think that it's useful for any situation where forced AOE damage happens. It is a complete waste to just throw it on the tank for no reason, however.

fourth- 20% is not "overmitigation" is just a 10% buff over the actual 10%.Another thing, do you actually think that a 10% dmg reduction in raids is actually THAT usefull? once again if the party gets hit by "4000" it will only reduce 400 hp! Do you actually think that 400 is a great reduction? If you actually wanna know how "BIG" 400 is,try to stay with full hp(assuming you have 5k hp) and receive those 400 as dmg, yeah, no big deal you still have 4,600 hp maybe that will help you to understand a bit more.
I stated no numbers. I merely stated that "all mitigation is useful mitigation". There's never a reason to completely abandon and disregard a skill that you can use to reduce damage. One needs to be very careful with regarding something like 10% reduced damage as useless. For all we know, 20% might become regarded as twice of "useless" and never used too!

As for your numbers, most people seem to be in agreement here that you shouldn't use Sacred Soil to reduce the damage inflicted upon a single person. Apply your 4000 damage attack to an entire 8 man group and you aren't mitigating 400 damage, you're mitigating 3200 damage, which is more than a single Lustrate will heal except on a high iLvl Warrior with Thrill of Battle currently up. This means that your friendly neighborhood White Mage could restore all the damage(or just enough) with a single Medica instead of using Medica II and causing a lot of overhealing in the process, just as an example... and we all know that White Mages are perfectly capable of taking threat with a mistimed Medica II x.x