My AST experience and what I expect from now on...

[Roxas_Andrade]

If scholars got a buff that would be the final nail in the coffin for white mage

LOL. Sure a lot of people will say that. But I think WHMs has such a good synergy between their skills that I don't see what needs to improve. IMO, Assize is like a mini Limit Break...

[ckc22]

ckc22 doesn't even have Ast at 60, it's only non-sense whining.

Your point being what? Of course I don't have it at 60 I don't want to play it. You can glean everything you need to know about healing from reading tooltips and doing math.

If scholars got a buff that would be the final nail in the coffin for white mage

I'd always rather have a Whm co healer personally.

[Rin_Kuroi]

I also play a 60 sch. While I don't savage on it there's a certain elegance that's missing when compared to whm. Part of it might be the overcompilcated (imo) dps rotation. The other part might be the fairy that I want to throw in a sack and drown in a lake. The 50+ skills also feel a bit underwhelming at least compared to my whm. Maybe sch just doesn't mesh with my play style any more. Maybe I'm just a baddie. I dunno.

[Lastelli]

Dissipation is not a healing CD. It's only usefulness is in adding dps. You shouldn't be using it for AF stacks because if you are you are managing your AF poorly.

Oh my, and how do you know? Devs disagree with you, since according to them this skill was specifically designed to give AF stack if for whatever reason you need it and the 20% healing buff is just secondary. This is the very definition of "emergency". You think you're managing your AF correctly but then hey, unexpected damage, gotta use indomitability! But now I have no AF stack and I really need sacred soil for raidbuster! Or you can use to increase your dps with more energy drains. It does have it's uses, period. SCH asking for buffs or better skills now that AST no longer sucks is like the fat kid asking for another slice of pizza because the poor kid next to him just got some crackers.

Part of it might be the overcompilcated (imo) dps rotation.

Please...just please...no. How is applying a fey dots and spamming broil "overcomplicated"?

[Soyre_Monre]

That you have no idea of what you're talking about. You see aspbene that is 14% better that sch shield and claim that's overpowered when you have no idea of the mana costs, how hps goes, the difference in healing with more power but without fairy, having sinastry but not AF.

Just stop whining.

[ckc22]

Oh my, and how do you know? Devs disagree with you, since according to them this skill was specifically designed to give AF stack if for whatever reason you need it and the 20% healing buff is just secondary. This is the very definition of "emergency". You think you're managing your AF correctly but then hey, unexpected damage, gotta use indomitability! But now I have no AF stack and I really need sacred soil for raidbuster! Or you can use to increase your dps with more energy drains. It does have it's uses, period. SCH asking for buffs or better skills now that AST no longer sucks is like the fat kid asking for another slice of pizza because the poor kid next to him just got some crackers.

People have been asking for dissipation to be fixed/changed since like.... 3 days after heavensward - it has 0 to do with astrologians, although all of you do seem to think the universe revolves around you. Too much time looking at stars.

[ckc22]

That you have no idea of what you're talking about. You see aspbene that is 14% better that sch shield and claim that's overpowered when you have no idea of the mana costs, how hps goes, the difference in healing with more power but without fairy, having sinastry but not AF.

Just stop whining.

I'll post whatever I like. You stop whining.

[SenzorialBoundries]

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Dmg never happen "unexpected" , if you fail to dodge a simple telegraphed aoe its your fault and its not unexpeced, if a tank fails to do proper cd rotations is not unexpected dmg just happening UNEXPECTED.. You clearly have no idea what you are talkinga bout, Emergency tactics is borderline useless , its same effective hp, actually worse since shields > heals, you cant overheal with shields. You crit an ET Adlo ok 12k heal sure all nice but for what when >50% of that is a big overheal, dissipation is only useable on less healing intensive phases , like p1 a1s when the whm can solo heal the whole thing, its just for the dps boost and thats that. If you need to rely on a horrible skill such as dissipation to save some1 than either you or that person did something terrible wrong to reach that point. Scholars are asking for simple tweeks and fixes but all the focus goes on Astrologians , its not like we need a whole kit rework just a simple fix, like embrace fix to act like 300 heal instead of 175-200

Only good skill scholars got in 3.0 is indomitability, DT is also very good but sitiuational.

[Ghishlain]

Only good skill scholars got in 3.0 is indomitability, DT is also very good but sitiuational.

Out of curiosity, why don't you like Broil? It's potent and straight forward.

[RichardButte]

I play(ed) both SCH and AST at 60 and in Alex (not savage yet).

The only buff SCH needs is for Dissipation to not be a horrible mistake to use. Maybe if it just resummoned the pet at the end of the duration it'd be fine, but the net loss of healing and mana from having your fairy gone is just not worth it...