Quote Originally Posted by Exiled_Tonberry View Post
Not to mention AST shields strength is a lot more reliable than SCHs and can be casted faster and on the move for less MP.
Looking at the mitigation of AST and SCH through a tunnel, AST towers over SCH.
AH isn't stronger than Deployed Adlo even on base potency, and when you consider a Scholar is usually deploying from Warrior Defiance, DPS Mantra, and, Convo bonuses, those enhancements aside from Mantra, an AST cannot take advantage of for other party members. Nor the critical bonus, which AST has nothing on. That's okay though, that why Astro has Disable/CU to make up in this area.

More importantly a Scholar can use fairy cooldowns while in cleric stance, and that is good argument why they had no issue bumping Astro base shield skills to be slightly stronger. Astro has no way to get passive 20% magic mitigation, nor do they have access to any party-regen every 60s. Which is pretty huge considering in a WHM/AST combo there is more healing that have to be pumped out by the players themselves versus a group with a Scholar where Eos can do a lot of the heavy lifting.