Why does SCH do more AoE DPS than SMN?

[Bigcat9715]

Why wouldn't you use Ifrit-egi on large pulls? Flaming Crush is 110 to all nearby enemies with a 30 recast, vs Aerial Slash's 90 damage to target & nearby enemies (which I read as a cone attack).

Flaming crush is bugged. It has a really short range. It can't even hit 2 dummies standing next to each other.

[DeadRiser]

Whm is laughing at this discussion lol

Ew. God, I hate holy spam. It's so awfully ugly to see in the game. I hope they change it in 3.0.

Yes, I play and main white mage.

[Anatha]

Bane was never nerfed, the tooltip was simply wrong.

[Lovescake]

Don't forget you tested this on a dummy....

A SCH is rarely in cleric stance the whole fight.

[Bigcat9715]

Bane was never nerfed, the tooltip was simply wrong.

How was the tool tip wrong?

[Ghishlain]

How was the tool tip wrong?

Bane, since the beginning of 2.0, has only ever been able to spread the DoTs to three other targets. This was never indicated in the original tooltip. S-E has since made the change to the tooltip indicating the maximum amount of targets Bane can spread DoTs too.

Bane was never nerfed, only shown improper information.

[Franchesca]

I'm convinced OP is trolling..

[SummerRider]

Go test yourself, find a sch and a smn with same gear level and get them both to DoT up a dummy. The SCH DoTs will do way more damage than the summoner dots.

I main SCH. (I have much better gear on my SCH then my SMN). When I'm doing my beast tribe dailies I do them as my SMN. Why? B/C things die so much more quickly. The DOTs may indeed do more damage with my SCH vs my SMN. But my SMN kills things so much more quickly then my SCH. Doesn't matter if if's a single mob or a group of them. In both cases given the choice I will go as my SMN and NOT my SCH.

[Bigcat9715]

Bane, since the beginning of 2.0, has only ever been able to spread the DoTs to three other targets. This was never indicated in the original tooltip. S-E has since made the change to the tooltip indicating the maximum amount of targets Bane can spread DoTs too.

Bane was never nerfed, only shown improper information.

The original Bane (like 1.0) used to spread to all enemies in a 5 yard radius.

[Ghishlain]

The original Bane (like 1.0) used to spread to all enemies in a 5 yard radius.

I don't think Bane was in 1.0, but as I'm not a Legacy player, I can't quote this directly. I found a list of XIV abilities here and Bane's not listed, but don't know how accurate the list itself is.

With that being said, for AAR, Bane's tool tip provided incorrect information and the tool tip was changed in patch 2.1.

2.1 Patch Notes

Action help text has been revised for the following actions:

Bane
Now correctly states that Bio, Bio II, and Masma are spread to a maximum of three targets.

I believe there was a Dev post about it too, but can't seem to find it ATM.