Quote Originally Posted by Thoosa View Post
Honestly for a game that puts so much emphasis on dps there has been some weird choices made on the healers.

It seems to me that the only healer now with an identity is AST now. It has cards (which aren’t as good as stormblood, but the utility is still there), it has lightspeed, Earthy Star, Divination (with a long cooldown) and it has shields or regens. The shields cost a load of MP which I assume is deliberate so not to cast Scholar into irrelevancy and the dps is weak presumably because the job has utility.

Scholar seems a shadow of its former self. I miss Miasma 2, Shadowflare and Bane. It was fun to play balancing doing DPS with shielding. Scholar was meant to be the DPSA healer?

WHM just feels the same without Aero 3, lots of healing options (which don’t seem needed outside Savage) and pretty boring DPS which currently seems to outshine the other healers lol. WHM should always have a place in savage assuming the incoming damage is high, because I assume in the current state an AST and SCH partnership would be harder.

I’m not sure why they couldn’t have just kept the DPS abilities and by proxy the healer identities and just increased the incoming damage for normal content.
SCH feels like it still has an identity to me. AST is like a discount WHM with the option of being a horrendously underpowered discount SCH. The card system is such a shadow of its old self it makes the SCH issues of having fewer DPS buttons look more like a joke. A SCH is going to get plenty of reward for the effort they put in, and AST puts in a ton more effort for a reward that is just not worth it to the point people exclude it.