Anyone else feeling a hit to SCH?

[Deviru]

... I'm not going to main a class that I don't find fun anymore. The new toys they are offering aren't enough for me to stay as one. I'll be an AST main come the expansion.

^ This.

To be honest with you, as long as SCH could keep its current playstyle, I wouldn't give a heck about whether it got a single new skill in the expansion. The current SCH is fun, giving a unique playstyle that feels fluid and smooth and engaging. There's always something you can do with your time as a SCH due to the 20% MP Aetherflow, which pretty much means you can always be DPSing, healing, or shielding. Now they want to nerf our MP gain, meaning we can't DPS as much as we used to, they're nerfing the fairy so we have less freedom to DPS as we please, our shields are inferior to the "hybrid" healer, and Chain Stratagem, while nice, is turning out to be a crit boost on party members and not a flat percent gain. Add onto that our huge MP cost, the total gutting of our AOE damage, and Shadow Flare being on CD?

Yeah, no. SCH looks no fun anymore. AST will be my go-to healer in 4.0 unless/until changes are made, I guess.

P.S. This is also why I feel awful for WHM mains. I feel like WHM is going to be less fun to play as a whole and force players into a playstyle that isn't even efficient in hopes of gaining lilies. At least, that seems to be the method of playing WHM that SE is encouraging.

[Saraphin]

snip.

I've friends that play SCH, so i looked into the tool tips, Chain Stratagem isn't applied to the party member, but a Mob. Not much of a consolation, i suppose, but it is a small thing to note.