balance through Balance

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If you at least played AST you would know that Stellar Explosion (which btw EXPLOSION not Detonation) has a wrong tooltip.
Also you are forgetting that If you start with 3 aetherflow stacks Aetherflow IS NOT on CD so it is 9x Energy Drain aka 1350 potency in 2 minutes (no I'm not counting with Dissipation).

And I didn't count Lord of Crowns either for a reason...

Just like how an Astrologian isn't going to be sitting there trying to turn all his cards into Lord of Crowns in a raid a Scholar isn't going to be sitting there spamming all of his stacks on Energy Drain unless the raid needs virtually no healing which in that case why are you bringing that Sch in the firs...oh wait...Bandage Stratagem...

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And I didn't count Lord of Crowns either for a reason...

Just like how an Astrologian isn't going to be sitting there trying to turn all his cards into Lord of Crowns in a raid a Scholar isn't going to be sitting there spamming all of his stacks on Energy Drain unless the raid needs virtually no healing which in that case why are you bringing that Sch in the firs...oh wait...Bandage Stratagem...

No that's because the lord is rng, our only ogcd damage is rng and if you are a good Scholar you know when to use energy drain.

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No that's because the lord is rng, our only ogcd damage is rng and if you are a good Scholar you know when to use energy drain.

You don't get to write off a DPS source just because it's RNG, that's virtually half of your job! That would be about as crazy as a Rdm not counting Verfire and Verstone because they are RNG procs... If you don't care about any other cards you can enter the fight with a Lord in que and then statistically you'll be able to get at least 2 more over the course of 2 minutes meaning that's an extra 900 potency...that's still not going to differentiate Sch and Ast by more than 5%.

But who enters the fights with Lord instead of Balance which is exactly the point! If you want to count a pre-loaded energy drain then you should also count a pre-loaded balance (It'll do a LOT more than an extra 450 potency).

Do you honestly think any healer can outdo an additional +10% raid damage during everyone's opener? You have to be absolutely nuts if you think White Mages extra DPS over Ast will be greater than the amount Ast cards bring to a fight unless your DPS are trash tier where they can't even do 300 DPS at level 70 >.>