SCH needs some nerfs

[Risvertasashi]

Remember that when SB dropped SCH suffered from quite a few issues, and since then they've been given constant adjustments and buffs to bring them up to an acceptable pick.

I'm not sure that SCH ever was weak. A lot of this happened before the raids were even released.

I suspect it was a knee-jerk to a few potency drops, coupled with playing in levelling dungeons where both tanks and healers tended to be much less geared - which people aren't used to at the end of an expansion.

There was the perception of being weak though, and people continued asking for SCH buffs even when it had reestablished itself in the Stormblood raid meta.

[Kurando]

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Well I'm not suggesting SCH was ever weak per say, but it did need some adjustments and some changes did actually happen after the raids were released. When you have enough players complaining and SE acting on them quite quickly, then clearly there must of been something wrong to begin with. I mean we have regular threads/debates about WHM but SE still isn't doing much to it, so either WHM isn't it dire need of anything or SCH/AST needed them much more.

[Risvertasashi]

I mean we have regular threads/debates about WHM but SE still isn't doing much to it, so either WHM isn't it dire need of anything or SCH/AST needed them much more.

SE's balancing decisions are a mystery. They don't tell us why they do the things they do. It is true that a strong community reaction can force their hand, but they clearly don't mind catapulting certain classes into must-pick status (WAR for tanks, SCH for healers, etc etc). They (substantially) buffed AST when it was already meta.

It's not really fair to say "they must have needed it" when there's rather large piles of evidence that they didn't. Or in the case of early-SB SCH, simply no evidence. Yeah, a few skills were questionable then. But now SCH is once more, the god-healer must pick for... the whole expansion.