Quote Originally Posted by Mhiro View Post
DPS wasn't SCH's identity. The preventative healing through shields and faerie are. The skills it lost were all core skills of the Summoner tool kit that SCH should've never had in the first place. Everyone is just mad because they're finally taking steps to separate SCH from SMN properly after making the mistake of branching them both off ACN. At the end of the day, until they uplift the current role to party system and add a proper support role to put a DPS/Healer hybrid into while also increasing our party size to 5-6(10-12/30-36), SCH is a healer and the only advanced toolkit it needs is an advanced healing tool kit. The DPS kit is simply an attachment to make use of in situations where it is appropriate to do so.
1.) Preventative/inactive healing is definitely the biggest part of SCH's identity, however, this aspect becomes a lot more meaningless on its own when you remove so many dps tools. Skills like Adlo, Succor, Excog and Fey Union create a lot of time and space for the healer when used efficiently. If you know there won't be any raid-wide damage in 30 seconds, you can just pop adlo+excog+fey union on tank and then you have a whole 30 seconds to deal damage. The "identity" of having inactive healing tools works very well in conjunction with having more interesting dps tools. When they said they will be focusing on a "pure healing role" in the live letter, they said they meant focusing on direct heals rather than shields or fairy. So what is the point of keeping all this "set and forget" healing in scholar's kit, if they are going to spam 1 skill in their downtime?

2.)If they are trying to separate SCH from SMN, why does SMN still have a raise? I get RDM is half WHM but why does SMN need a raise other than "We are too scared of the backlash from summoners"? If they are trying to seperate SMN from SCH, they should make it so that leveling from 1 to max level as SCH is as fun as leveling SMN to max.