Quote Originally Posted by Kabooa View Post
See the difference between these two statements?

One of them is a quip about how much weaker Scholar's kit change is with the direct analogues, completely ignoring how the skills are used in context, and the other is a an overview of its performance, with the admittance that other parts of the kit are separate and merit further discussion.

Would you care to guess which of these is more prevalent?
Problem is, there's nothing inaccurate about my statement like you're trying to make it out to be.

And regarding

While the whole thing with Bane and shadow flare is another topic all together, I will gladly take Art of War and buffed Ruin II over Miasma II any day. SB Miasma II is literally just a haphazardly thrown together skill to quickly patch a weakness in sch's toolkit. While Art of War reuses a pvp skill animation, it feels like it had more thought put into it then Miasma II did.
He complains about Miasma II having to be cast in melee range, and then says that he'd take AoW over Miasma II any day despite AoW being
1) less total potency and
2) only usable in melee range.

You didn't start spamming Miasma 2 until you've properly

1) started with it to get some damage rolling
2) dotted up one mob with Miasma and Bio.
3) spread those dots via Bane and Shadow Flared on OGCD. At this point, your initial Miasma 2 is done doing 200 potency to every enemy you hit it with
4) start spamming.

Complexity. It's important to any job.