Quote Originally Posted by Seraphor View Post
I may not be in the majority with my opinion on SCH, but having just recently picked it up after AST and WHM, I feel like it’s AoE rotation is too many things to manage, for the same result that WHM and AST can do in half the time and half the buttons.

My main AST, is just Gravity spam, which I’m perfectly fine with.
WHM is just Aero III and Holy spam, soon to be just Holy spam because of Aero III going.
SCH, requires two dots and Bane just to set up the DoTs… and as damage over time, those 2.5 GCD’s eat into your damage, and with AoEs being used for trash pulls, that’s pretty much half the HP of the enemies anyway, they’re dead before your DoT collection has had a chance to do anything. And your AoE spam ability, is another DoT! So spamming it is actually a DPS loss.
And if like me you DPS via target-of-target macros, because you’re a controller player, then if the tank switches target, your DoTs end up on different targets, and you can’t Bane.

So yeah, I’m not at all bothered by this, will probably make me more likely to play SCH.
You miasma and bio during the pull then weave shadowflare and bane in as the tank settles. Then spam miasma II and weave ED in for the mana. Also weave lucid and af for the mana. You’ll be doing as much of not more as you would on whm (depends on how strong the party dps is)
Yes it’s more involved but that’s what makes the design great. If it’s too much you have two other healer to fall back on. But if you get bored of your ast or whm you also have a bit of a harder class to play in sch. Diversity is fun and gives you something more to work towards when you e already spent countless hours on the other healers.