Quote Originally Posted by Lilseph View Post
The critical shield portion of the Crit Adloquium (now a separate buff called Catalyze) can't be deployed. This was probably the strongest part of the Scholar's kit because it made it possible to completely ignore mechanics for the entire party. It's a net buff for a single-target Adlo, but definitely a net loss for Deployment Tactics.
Currently Adloq is 100% Galvanize Shield base, 200% Galvanize Shield on critical. Current tooltip has it at 125% Galvanize Shield all casts, with an additional 100% Catalyze Shield. Now once you account for only needing a single cast to get the critical adloq, the MP and GCD savings to produce a critlo should roughly outdo a 37.5% loss on shield efficacy (1.25/2.00=.625, 1.00-.625=.375). Considering it removes the MP cost and the RNG of crit, on the first cast you only save MP, every cast required after that is the saving of 2.5s and an entire MP cost, so if it takes say average 3-5 Adloqs to get a crit, that an increase of 66-80% increase in time efficacy and a saving of 3-5 rather expensive MP costs. Not to mention the overall amount of shields a SCH produces will be increased by the Seraph, tho that depends a bit on release day potency of her spells/abilities.