Quote Originally Posted by Connor View Post
As we all know by now, 4.0 is going to see some 'changes' to the battle system.
During the 3.0 series Scholar has been widely considered to be extremely powerful in PvE compared to the other two healers (though this gap is much less between SCH/AST because of Balance).
Wait what?

1) Taking embrace off autopilot goes directly against SE's goal of simplifying the same for 4.0. It simply won't happen. More likely it'll see another whopping stealth nerf akin to how it dropped off in strength as you levelled from 50 to 60. Not to mention, any progression minded SCH worth their salt will be manually spamming embrace or at the very least using macros. This would just increase the gulf between the raid community and casuals, I imagine SE are well aware of this.

2) What? I can't think of a situation where it makes a significant enough difference to make or break a run? Making the big transitions hit for 0 damage is funny for sure, but it doesn't really change anything and it certainly isn't consistent enough to build a strat around it.

3) SCH's MP is where it should be, AST has arguably too much MP regen, whilst WHM has too little. A SCH DPSing hard enough has surprisingly little spare MP to play with and it's very easy to hit empty with a raise at the wrong moment =(

4) Cleric stance doesn't stop regens for example. Yes a SCH is the most suited to it but that doesn't mean that WHM and AST can't fulfil this role, they both have quirks and caveats but they can most certainly DPS just fine in raids. This 'disparity' adds flavour to the game. WHM and AST are already tripping over each others toes as it is, the last thing we need is the healer waters getting even more muddied. Oh and again I'll disagree with your MP management comment on SCH, frankly either you don't know what you are on about or you aren't DPSing hard enough, Broil enough and you will start running out of MP unless you've stacked Piety.

SCH is fantastically balanced IMO, it's got some powerful abilities and it's fairy brings a lot to the table, but it also takes skill, effort and practice to really get the most out of it's quirky abilities as well as Eos. Don't get me wrong, I do think that SE need to address the healer 'meta' for 4.0, but nerfing SCH isn't the way to go about it.