Pros and Cons of The Feast

[Pentt]

Sorry but your analysis on the current state of the three healing jobs is not quite correct. AST is the easiest to play, I'll give you that, but it simply falls shorts compared to the other two. SCH and especially WHM have much more healing output than the AST does. Just because people are bad at SCH and WHM does not mean AST is "OP". My opinion is that WHM is currently the most powerful healing job as they have massive, passive healing output in the form of regens. Tetragrammaton and Benediction are both extremely potent healing CD's and Sacred prism is probably the best healing ability in the game. They also have Repose, Fluid Aura, Blizzard 2, and Stone 1. Their CC is untouched by the other jobs.

I agree WHM is the best. Not sure if I'd put SCH above AST, they don't have any CC aside from Blizzard 2 and Aura blast and 0 instant casts outside of Lustrate. Even without a monk on the enemy team they seem too easy to shut down.

[Renault]

I agree WHM is the best. Not sure if I'd put SCH above AST, they don't have any CC aside from Blizzard 2 and Aura blast and 0 instant casts outside of Lustrate. Even without a monk on the enemy team they seem too easy to shut down.

Sorry I was unclear. I think AST is more effective and better suited for the Feast, but SCH still does more actual healing than an AST. This is because most of their healing comes from lustrates, and not adlo. I'll disagree with your last point though. If they don't get their aetherflow removed and they use their fairy optimally, I think they'd be in line if not slightly better than AST. It's just that monks are SO common right now that they appear to be so weak.

[Cynric]

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You're half right. Scholar is better than Noct AST in some ways especially if there's no Monk to shut them down. However, Scholars also suffer from not being able to handle spread damage as well as lacking the CC options AST has. (Heavy,AoE stun, bind vs just bind) Ast also brings cards to the table, Bole,Arrow, and Balance are all extremely great cards and Scholar has nothing similar to this utility. Scholar shields are not instant cast and they only get a maximum of 6 lustrates before the fairy has to do most of the work, If the fairy is CC'd or killed, Scholar will have a struggle keeping themselves and their parties alive if the damage is split or they need to lustrate themselves to stay alive.

Scholar isn't bad by any means, but they have limitations on what they can do because of aetherflow and the fairy. The fairy is killable/CCable and aetherflow is a finite resource. Neither ast or whm suffer from this issue as badly.

As for the other half, AST does have the option of forgoing the survivability of shielding for the capability to heal their team mates better using Diurnal, and Diurnal may have a place when countering SMNs damage spread by using regens not possible inside Nocturnal. Nocturnal is just more widely used in the current meta as it works and has worked in the past. Diurnal stance may not be as good as Nocturnal right now but Scholars have no such option to choose from.