Quote Originally Posted by LeonTrifang View Post
Not much is changing. I like that we are all becoming pure healers. I do hate that we are losing energy drain, and the ability to tell our fairy who to heal, but we aren’t losing anything crucial to our kit. Except energy drain..... which I really hope we get back lol
Bane is absolutely more valuable than an ED on even just two targets. You’re saving two GCDs. That’s equal to two broils. Good lord.

Anyway the fundamental advantage to SCH has always been that the fairy handles some healing for you, so you can afford a more complex dps rotation. This does not mean explicitly more damage, as they were outdamaged by AST, but a more unique and interesting playstyle.

If you take away the kit the fairy becomes painful to have around. Instead of being a cool tool that permits you to have a different toolkit from other healers, it becomes a crutch that does 50% of your job for you. The fairy will make SCH even more boring than WHM, because most of the time you won’t even need to heal, freeing your time up to mash the broil button for the entire encounter.

If you wanted an ultra-simplistic WoW-like experience in Stormblood you could play WHM, with one damage spell, one oGCD burst, and two dots, compared to SCH’s two damage spells, three dots, and four oGCDs! Now BOTH are even more simplistic than Stormblood WHM, with no major decreases in healing potencies.

It’s homogenizing the healers for no reason.