supervirus more impactful than proshell

[Risvertasashi]

I realize how ambiguous that statement is due to the way I structured it, lol.

Because WHM has a lower skill ceiling, it also has an overall lower potential versus SCH. Wasn't implying SCH had a lower potential. xD Should've rephrased it to be:

No, I think your sentence was on the mark. I mean, I'm curious about in what way you think WHM has lower potential?

In some ways I would agree. WHM can't DPS as much, or flow from DPS/healing/DPS as naturally. SCH does reward ability to multitask very well. On the other hand, I do not think SCH's HP/S potential is as high as WHM.

So much speculation without real numbers yet. Who knows maybe the whm regen bubble of lol is on par with having a regen 2 like potency? maybe ast and sch shields don't stack. maybe pld shields do stack but are based on the heal they receive as to the strength of the shield so a high potency heal will be best for activating it. there is a whole deck of ast cards we don't know about yet. we aren't sure what's a toggle and what's a buff. with all these shields and regens we don't know what they are planning on for content. Does virus and disable stack? Is there really a need to solo heal end-game raid content other than just to say you did? So who cares if a sch can but whm can't? There seems to be a lot more shielding/heals being sent to "nearby party members" aka melee dps/ot. Why? Do we expect a lot of unavoidable aoe damage in new content or do we assume maybe there are mass add phases where lots of people are taking damage?

With so little information there sure is a lot of "talking out one's posterior". We have some press people playing for a bit. Do they play regularly? Did they have time to really get a feel for a class or just try and use skills whether it was an appropriate time for it? Ast seems weak? Did they have time to figure out the class? Sch sure can seem weak even now in easy content they are overgeared for if they never really took the time to understand the class. What kind of dps can we get from an Ast?

Every job role thread is so much speculation and back and forth with not even half the information.

We actually do have answers to some of those questions, but all in all, you're right. No one will really know until the dataminers go to town on the patch and then when the new raids open. That said, the press at the event were FFXIV endgame players before the event. But in the end, it was still a limited preview.

edit: All that said, if people are going to argue WHM is dead (yet again...) before the expansion, I might as well argue it's not ：)