Quote Originally Posted by Anselmet View Post
Honestly, I just want SCH to be fun to play again. I'm extremely sad that after three to four years of playing SCH that I am now playing WHM just so things are interesting and smooth gameplay wise. It's not that I don't ever have mp issues or even healing issues. I am fully capable of healing the exact same content or big pulls on WHM and SCH equally, but there is simply something lacking and utterly clunky about SCH that I cannot put my finger on
That's how I felt about SCH in Heavensward, and still do. Although back then it was stronger, it was still kinda clunky.

You've got the fairy off doing something, and I never got good enough at SCH to fully predict what "something" was going to be. Apparently you can macro it to make it more reliable, but that's a layer of clunkiness right there. There's something inherently wrong about being expected to macro the most basic function of the class to make it perform properly. Then you also have to position it correctly or it won't heal certain people due to range, but doesn't have a way to tell you in game if someone is out of range (unless it's beside you and you're out of range, in which case it likely is as well).

Dissipation and Emergency Tactics are two abilities I never got much use out of, and Dissipation seems even worse now that you're supposed to build up the gauge, which requires having a fairy out. That doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me. Emergency Tactics I don't get the use of, since if I want a big heal I can Lustrate/Indom, if someone is at risk of dying I probably am okay with having the shield on them, and if they're not, this is hardly an "emergency" and the fairy (or the other healer) will probably get to it anyway.

Aldo? I honestly think it's so expensive because of the crit effect + deployment being so good. But if you don't get a crit, you're paying through the nose for what you do get. It's very much "hey I won the lottery!" vs "hey I'm too low on MP to buy a ticket because I already lost the lottery 4 times".

That 80% damage reduction on Bane for large pulls really stings and makes it feel like I'm not accomplishing anything on half the pack, although I guess I can spam Miasma II now (how weird is it to spam something that puts up a DoT?). The whole DPS situation doesn't feel very fun compared to what WHM can do. Although WHM does need to be good at that due to its lack of buffs, that doesn't mean the SCH stuff needs to be awkward and unsatisfying to use.

I used to think that SCH just wasn't for me and left it at that, but with so many other people unhappy with it? Well, at least I'm not alone.