after the lack of tank we have lack of healers now

[Reynhart]

The person whose response you originally responded to was specifically saying SCH is bad right now, and I would say they are correct

I don't play SCH enough to grasp all the changes that were made. What I see frequently is how their damage output was nerfed with the fusion of DoTs and the change on Bane. Apart from their DPS, were they changed that much ?

I'm not surprised if a lot of SCHs are on their SMNs at the moment.

Come one...they can summon freaking Bahamut ! Who can compete with that ?!

but don't criticise people for focusing on DPSing when there's legitimately nothing else to do most of the time other than sleeping at the keyboard or fishing for lilies you don't really need. It's a design problem more than a player problem.

But, like I said when I mentionned tanks, it won't change the fact that you'll be rewarded by higher DPS if you play well...but when compared to other healers. That fact that numbers were reduced doesn't change that. You shouldn't compare your damage output with real DPS to judge if you're good or bad.

This makes it difficult to feel 'skilled'. I've tried to make 'skilled' plays other ways.

Yet, you'll still have some healers idling instead of casting damage spells. On the topic of tanks, which I know a lot more than healers, it wasn't rare to run into PLD that only spam RoH in 3.x. You don't need stance dancing to find a skill gap.

Hit swiftcast for a res only to have a RDM insta-cast, etc.

You can't judge your value on the chance that a RDM might be in your party. Right, it's brand new, so lot of people try it. It's far too early to judge who will keep playing it.

In the end, we're on a transition time. Numbers are changed, the dynamic is different, and the content is still new to judge how important one particular job is. People need to put HW behind them, and relearn the meta.