Quote Originally Posted by TatoRazzino View Post
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I can't speak for everyone else, but for me, it's not the shields that are the problem, it's that even though we can shield almost as well as a scholar, we aren't given all the other healing capabilities a scholar has, aka the fairy and all the various aetherflow abilities, which is really what makes scholar viable. If I wanted to play scholar without aetherflow and without the free healing the fairy adds and with less dps, I'd be playing scholar without the free healing, the aetherflow, and I'd dps less often.

And no, I'm not saying AST should get a fairy and aetherflow and whatnot. What I am saying that I don't want to be a thrift-store scholar; I want to be an Astrologian.