Quote Originally Posted by Kabzy View Post
From a healers perspective I would disagree with it being more important. Its an Arcanist ability, so if anything it should be shared amongst SMN and BLM. Protect being shared makes sense because if it wasn't it puts more strain on parties wanting to go AST/SCH, and so WHM would almost be a necessity for every group. Supervirus is actually one of the things that again makes SCH unique to WHM at the moment, so sharing it out would be rather counter-productive to your argument.
How can you possibly think Supervirus is less important than Proshell? If you have done BCoB/SCoB/FCoB before they each respectively got nerfed/echo you would know just what a gigantic impact to boss damage Supervirus has and done practically anything as a SCH to know what little impact Proshell has in comparison (not to mention SCH has access to Fey Covenant to use for the big aoe's reliably enough). Giving AST a similar skill wouldn't have been too much of a stretch but no, they took the easy way out and made Proshell baseline which isn't a big deal per say but it does drop WHM desirability a fair bit and while Supervirus stays SCH exclusive among healers, it will be unbalanced.
Saying DPS (BLM/SMN) should have it instead falls flat because neither are a must in a standard group while at least one healer pretty much is and the impact Supervirus has is as said, huge enough to warrant to give it to all 3 healers (not the reduced CD, just the effect).