Quote Originally Posted by Kabzy View Post
I completely disagree. I don't see the SCHs pet as a 'problem'. It's part of what makes the job unique, and I'm not for all jobs being carbon copies of each other. AST was and is the main problem because the devs didn't focus on the aspect that makes it unique, instead they tried to make it a copy of both WHM and SCH.

This is why if they do add a fourth healer I'm hoping it will compete with SCH and AST can get Nocturnal Sect removed and buffed in Diurnal/Cards. There's no reason that one job should be allowed to achieve everything.
This isn't about uniqueness, it's about balance. Like I said in my previous post, even the Development team has come out and said that the fairy is the problem (and that it's hard to balance around). When you think of a permanent regen, unaffected in any way by Cleric Stance, of having its ability cooldowns separate from the Scholar (basically like a double cast in many instances); does that sound OK to you? I mean, the Scholar doesn't have any other HoT beside the fairy, I don't think anyone is advocating to remove the pet, but the it is obviously leagues above the equivalents of what WHM and AST have in that regard.