balance through Balance

[Caduagm]

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Not gonna take it serious because in Lakshmi fights you get around 3-4 lords (just so you know) and Scholar has free energy drains if they use eos.

[LegoTechnic]

Not gonna take it serious because in Lakshmi fights you get around 3-4 lords (just so you know) and Scholar has free energy drains if they use eos.

3-4 Lord of Crowns equates to about 6-8 energy drains. This is about right, actually. An off-healing SCH will do as much as they can to avoid casting Adloquium and Succor, so they'll use stacks for their ogcds like Indomitability for AoE moments like after the lotus marks right before the AoE hits and Lustrate or Excogitation to aid tank buster recovery. Assuming no one dies you'll find yourself draining when you have spare stacks at the time of Aetherize coming live, and otherwise keeping your stacks in reserve in case they're needed. If you burn all your stacks specifically on Energy Drain then your viability to actually heal reactively plummets like a rock, which is rather catastrophic if something should happen, like if the other healer should accidentally forget to pop his Vril or something.

And if you can get through the entire fight without using your ogcd heals just using the basic kit + Eos, then you may as well try being a DPS and letting the other healer see if they can single-heal as it sounds like your group is pretty solid.

As to the point, I agree completely that AST's personal DPS is the worst of the group. Lord of Crowns is potent, the potency equivalent of SMN's Fester with two DoTs active (its max), and double that of Energy Drain, but the card cost can both be considered high and random so much like Lady of Crowns it feels more like a bonus than something reliable. Earthly Star suffers from pet-tax like MCH's turrets and does less than its listed 200 pot, which is already less than its equivalent DPS amounts in Assize and Shadowflare (if all five ticks hit). Malefic III is 10 pot less than Broil II, and Combust is 20 potency less than the combined amount of Bio II and Miasma, though it lasts longer and thus needs less gcds spent to refresh to compensate (we won't talk about WHM because it makes us both feel sad). In the end though, the DPS contribution they give with Balance and Arrow offset the personal amount they do, so it's difficult to believe that anyone is going to care much. AST DPS is decent, but if you're spending enough time where your personal DPS deficit becomes noticeable (and you actually care about such things) then you've long since passed the point where you need to either be considering single-healing the encounter or rolling as DPS if your partner is an AST.