Quote Originally Posted by Kabzy View Post
If you actually see the context of the entire post, I'm making a direct comparison between two moves that function the same. A single target shield.

You're bringing MP management into this, which personally I do not believe is an issue on any healer. If I get my infinite mana back, it's still not going to validate how much more powerful/brainless A.Benefic is compared to Adloquium.
It was connected to bringing SCH back to it's old self. You compared to two spells, one that was buffed, and another that got a nerf. And yes, you're right, MP isn't an issue on any of them if we look into 8 man content. There, SCH has no issues. None of them do. They all perform well and I've seen no difference in performance.

Either way if AST gets punched I'd probably still play it. I mained it in 3.0 I know how playing a bad job feels and how to make it work (And I did make ast work then.) There is, however, a very important piece of information that's likely not gone through anyone's head.

Remember when SCH had better shields, and AST noct was considered worthless? I remember that. Is the issue that AST's shields are bigger than SCH's unless they crit? If so, won't making the shields from AST lower than SCH's no matter what just make it worthless again? We don't get a crit multiplier on the shield. If our shield's were a 250 potency, we'd be a laughing stock again, and just go back to double regen. SCH's were going for crit anyways last I checked, so they would be more often to get that huge shield boost. What likely happened in SE's thoughts was that since AST shields don't get the multiplier, they have to naturally be bigger than SCH's, or nobody would ever go Noct astrologian like before.