Quote Originally Posted by Zolvolt View Post

Scholar clearly lost a lot, Shadow flare, miasma, energy drain. 63 casts in all. The most of any healer. Sch is the most unbalanced healer when it comes to damage. (which is why ast was created with only 2 rotational dps spells)
It was 3 (2 DoT and Malefic) + 1 with Aero.

The reason of why so few dps skills is because the other ressources to manage were not evident. In particular, the cards, without a doubt the most complicated system to learn and master that a job has in this game. Add to this the lowest mana ressource, the incapacity to move during Collective Unconscious during max 3 sec (to proc effect) during HW, and you know why SE has not opted for a longer rotation dps.

During SB, the dps rotation has decreased but the cards system has increased in complexity, same for the healing kit with Earthly Star (capacity to predict / know what mechanic will come and put ES to the exact seconde for perfect use).

For ShB, the cards system has completely lost his complexity and it will not be shifted in any part of the AST kit (maybe a tiny bit in the double stances abilities, that's all).

For SCH, at the contrary, for me, the complexity to manage dps rotation will be shift in all his other parts of his kit. With so many tools at his disposal (compared to other healers), which remind me more of HW time, I will have fun to manage them all, I guess.