Does SE suddenly hate ACN classes?

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I've played ACN classes since I started playing the game.
I find myself asking why SE hates us now?
SCH are not the greatest 8 man healers and play their first 30 levels as DPS.

In PvP they take away Cleric Stance and give OUR AoE Heal Boost skill (Sacred Soil) to WHM only as a PvP skill that's way better?

Casters are already gimped in PvP vs Melee, now the SCH is totally useless.

Now SMN are not the most desired DPS. There's a few places where they are used in strategies (often with Titan off tanking).

Yet now they've nerfed Titan to the point he can't even hold agro against dots?

SMN are slow to start dps, what we bring to a party is our pets and unique ways we can use them. Yet you take that from us too?

I rarely play SCH over WHM. Now even the solo ability of the SMN is being ruined.

What in the world does SE have against ACN?

- SCH can solo heal even extremes and raids.
- They took cleric stance away because of WHM parties spamming holy with it, was kinda broken.
- Sacred Soil HoT is useless, the only benefit we get from it is the 40% damage reduction and the skill duration isn't even long enough. Not to mention you're basically a free target since you have to stay inside that little circle.
- SCH has more survability while being attacked by melees while casters can't do anything but kite until you're dead because every attack will cancel your casts and Equanimity isn't enough, you still get stunlocked or silenced, or pushed until it runs out. It also happens on SCH but we get Lustrates while we kite, a stationary pet that heals us while we kite.
- SMN is the second class that does more dps overall in long fights after MNK, parties that don't desire SMN aren't smart.
- Several fights are SMN friendly because you can dps many targets at once while keeping your dps up on main boss, with Bane. And they have more dps increase chance in avoiding mechanics, because dots are ticking.

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- Both healers were broken in pvp, actually. Either healer could solo any other class by simply outsustaining them while doing some decent damage - Especially Scholar with 150 potency Energy drains and two instant DoTs.
- It's Black Mage that comes in second in long fights. Comes in first even without any form of aid (ie: Bards). A Black Mage has infinite resources, where any physical damage classes will run out of TP and have some down time and summoners have to use -Energy Drain at one point rather than Fester - Which is would lead to DPS loss.
-There aren't a lot of encounters that apply for this. Mainly in (Extreme) Primals. Only ones I could name off the bat would be Ifrit EX, Ramuh EX and Turn 7 second set of adds. In turn 7 it's common that the Summoner prioritises kiting, which a black mage cannot do reliably (it is possible, however)