Yeah, I think about half the SCHs complaining on the forums at this point don't even give half a crap about DPS output anymore, we just want out shields to be comparably as strong as AST's without having to give up half our MP for it.

There's also the fact that both AST and WHM have all these fancy OGCD FREE healing tools that cost nothing but miliseconds of animation lock, and most of SCHs most potent healing spells cost us aetherstacks, which is a quite limited source. When WHM/AST are done blowing off all their cool healing tools and proceed on to cure 2 spam, us SCHs clench our asses and hope aetherflow comes off cooldown soon because physick botspam can only do so much

Inb4 someone comes crying about how all healers are viable right now: yes, thank you, no one here is claiming otherwise