Balance was balanced

[RichardButte]

It's not a problem. If you're an AST. Your shields cost less mana, shield higher, and are instant, of course you don't see where the problem is.

They don't see where the problem is because you don't evaluate a class based upon one single ability. You evaluate it by its entire toolkit.

The aspected benefic that people love to whine about so much is actually a sub-par method of healing for ASTs as it's far less mana efficient than the HoTs.

AST being able to create larger shields in one of its two stances (that cannot be changed in combat) than SCH doesn't make it superior to SCH. SCH still has more overall shielding ability and better emergency buttons than AST does and likely ever will.

No one's arguing that SCH needs/needed some buffs, but acting like the SCH class was invalidated because of ONE shield comparison is ridiculous.