Scholar vs Astrologian Mitigation

[Fyce]

Hmm...what about Fey Illumination? It's a 10% healing potency buff for SCH. Since the shields are based on the cures, any increase in the cure potency = increase in the shield potency, right?
It has a big CD, but you included Deployment Tactics so shouldn't Fey Illumination count as well?

Because if you use a FI Adlo, that's 330 normal, 660 crit.
FI succor = 247.5

Just worth mentioning.

Deployment Tactics is strictly a mitigation cooldown. Fey Illumination is not. It's as simple as that. Otherwise I'd have taken Dissipation into account too.
But even then, it still doesn't change the situation of A.Benefic being miles above Adlo regarding single target shields, and Deployment Tactics giving the edge to the SCH in terms of AoE shielding. And notice how a Succor buffed by Fey Illum is still slightly below a simple A.Helios. Something else to consider is that using a pet skill is one of the most frustrating thing to deal with, and that's something to take into account when talking about Fey Illum.

So, while it's true that SCH have more potential tools for buffing its shields than the AST, their long cooldowns and weak multiplier don't really make that much of a difference. Dissipation will still be used mainly for its stacks reset effect, and Fey Illum will still be used for... well, simply giving you and your healing partner an easier time dealing with something, but not exclusively shielding people.

Again, I'm not saying these buffs are useless or anything like that. But the shielding aspect of the two jobs are mostly unaffected by them.

[Squintina]

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I was just pointing it out because I know in 06s with the many double aoes, it is something that I have done (which it also buffing my cohealer's heals/regens is a nice bonus).

Not saying it puts it above AST's shields, which really do seem really good especially for single target, just it seemed like you were going for a complete picture and I felt it was worth of an *.

[Fyce]

Not saying it puts it above AST's shields, which really do seem really good especially for single target, just it seemed like you were going for a complete picture and I felt it was worth of an *.

Oh, no. As I mentioned in my very first words, it was a "strict mitigation comparison", ie a listing of all the tools with a direct mitigation effect. And my conclusion is that it was absurd to compare them because of how different they work, which also impacts their mitigation aspect.

But yes, you can very much use Fey Illum/Dissipation the way you describe it, and the one Ceasaria mentioned. It was just a fact of these cooldowns not being strictly and directly mitigation ones.