Was the new sch even play tested?

[NobleWinter]

I just got Fey Blessing and went to use it with the obvious new skill excitement and it went on Cool Down without being triggered. I almost threw my controller. I waited 60 seconds and got to see the animation finally and it is gorgeous but definitely underwhelming since it glitched the first time around. As a side note I can not get over Selene and Eos being a Color Palette Swap. Of all things they could have done why that?! How hard would it be to make a Level 1 Synergy Trait that boosted all spell based healing by 5% for you and your fairy when Eos is summoned or reduced spell cast time/recast time and auto attack delay by 5% for you and your fairy when Selene is summoned. The actual percent doesn't matter but at least it would feel like they had a purpose and were staying true to the original design concept of healer and support pet.

[LegoTechnic]

I just got Fey Blessing and went to use it with the obvious new skill excitement and it went on Cool Down without being triggered. I almost threw my controller. I waited 60 seconds and got to see the animation finally and it is gorgeous but definitely underwhelming since it glitched the first time around. As a side note I can not get over Selene and Eos being a Color Palette Swap. Of all things they could have done why that?! How hard would it be to make a Level 1 Synergy Trait that boosted all spell based healing by 5% for you and your fairy when Eos is summoned or reduced spell cast time/recast time and auto attack delay by 5% for you and your fairy when Selene is summoned. The actual percent doesn't matter but at least it would feel like they had a purpose and were staying true to the original design concept of healer and support pet.

There is currently a bug of sorts where if you trigger a fairy ability at the wrong time during a fairy's animation, like just as she casts embrace, then the skill you triggered won't activate but will still go on cooldown. This is rare, but if you want to force it you can cast both Whisper and Illumination in sequence during an embrace animation and can sometimes get her to "eat" the whisper without casting it.

The reason they murdered Selene is probably because they didn't want to make alternate yellow-Seraph variant skills, which is probably not the reason anyone really wants to hear.

[Enla]

The Fairy AI is just as bad as ever. Not responsive, "Can't do that until previous is complete" Takes a server tick to apply fey union and fey blessing still.

Physic cures like a wet noodle and the fairy is slow to embrace. Seriously, Physic needs some love.

Our DPS is just... Not good. I watched a run of Titania EX and the player was parsing, the WHM was well over 2k DPS over their SCH co-healer... I cringed while I watched it.

[Doriann]

They really just need to make regens not generate enmity. Half the time adds spawn and go straight for the healer even if they haven't done anything, just because a regen is ticking on someone.

impossible due to regen + medica 2 stacking, aspected benefic and helios.

[adamswagem]

Our DPS is just... Not good. I watched a run of Titania EX and the player was parsing, the WHM was well over 2k DPS over their SCH co-healer... I cringed while I watched it.

WHMs are busted they are out DPSing tanks pulling like 7k lmao

[CaesarCV]

To go back to the original premise of this thread...it's pretty clear that Healers are a strange blindspot for the SE team at this point. It's a little sad to see how many major mistakes they make constantly. There's definitely no way they tried SCH out in solo content given how it give us no reason to engage with one of our most core mechanics (Aetherflow)...and even if we do it's really clunky.

[Sebazy]

I think the OPs comment is pretty bang on really. These changes were made from the perspective of someone who is healed, not the one who actually plays the healer.

There's just too many QoL issues every single time SE try to change up the healer jobs. These aren't even always little bugs that slipped through the net such as Play not queueing properly. Rather they are mistakes that lay bear a complete lack of experience actually playing these jobs for any significant amount of time. The changes made to give the AST it's card gauge in SB caused button bloat ahoy and just made things clunky. You'd think they'd learn the lesson from this? Clearly not as we are seeing now.

[YusiKha]

There is definitely significantly more damage output in the level 80 duties

Really? Because when I did Titania Ex, my cohealer and I were overcapping lilies&aetherflow. We were looking for ways to use them.

[RezPls]

There is definitely significantly more damage output in the level 80 duties

I take it you did not play at level cap when Heavensward, ARR, or Stormblood launched.
Incoming damage is very low in comparison.

I'm literally using my lilies in Titania and Innocence Ex so i don't lose a GCD in movement or just to double weave assize and benison while charging Afflatus Misery.
The only time i've had to worry about healing as to go out of my way to cast a non-afflatus heal is if people mess up and end up with more than 1 stack of vulnerability up.

I'd love for SE to give us something to heal and not just have gone the way of nerfing healing as we've leveled, but hey.