The positive Astrologian thread!

[GideonHighmourn]

Getting a crit with Adlo is always good, but getting a crit with ET+Adlo can be good or can't do anything at all.

That is completely and patently incorrect; ET will always transform shields into a heal. Getting/not getting a crit doesn't make it not "do anything at all".

Unless ET+Adlo crits, it's weaker than Cure II/Benefic II, while costing more MP.

Just because it's weaker than Cure II/Benefic II, doesn't make it "useless" (as you seem to be implying) either. If you're going by that logic, everything AST has in terms of heals is "useless" compared to their WHM/SCH counterparts.

Again, there's a fundamental difference between the "RNG" of a crit and the "RNG" of Draw that you seem to misunderstand; this was my main point, which you seem to have mostly missed. The point was not to debate the potency/efficiency of ET+Adlo. You can't call ET "unreliable when it doesn't crit (RNG)" the same way people call Draw unreliable due to RNG.

Draw relies on RNG for it's functionality. Crits just change the efficiency/potency of a skill and don't make the skill useless/useful in it's absence/presence.

Also, I don't typically use ET for Adlo, but rather for Succor. I can't really speak for other people, but I don't think many people use ET for Adlo outside of 4-man instances, or very rare cases in 8-mans.

[TatoRazzino]

That is completely and patently incorrect; ET will always transform shields into a heal. Getting/not getting a crit doesn't make it not "do anything at all".

You misread me. I said that getting a crit with ET+Adlo can be a waste, because of overhealing. I never said that the conversion is dependable on it getting a crit or not. My point is: SCH doesn't have any big heals. ET is a cooldown that transforms the two shielding spells SCH has in weaker or more costly versions of spells WHM and AST already have. That's not a problem, mind me; SCH is not supposed to do that. However, the post I originally replied to was arranging healing cooldowns and put ET there as if it was an addition to SCH that made it do more than AST, when that's not the case at all; ET is a cooldown that fills a gap and allows SCH to have a big healing spell every 30s without consuming stacks.