New SCH, have a few questions

[Billythepancake]

Excog is a passive heal. Passive skills, whether damage or heals dont display the same as active skills. Basically, DoTs and HoTs don't show crits with the giant number and !, they just have a bigger number.

Also, I personally wouldn't recommend using Recitation on Excog, you get more mileage out of using it on Adloquium instead. The 3 effects of Adlo wind up being 1050 potency combined, whereas Excog is only 800.

The biggest advantage to recitation excog is that it doesn't cost a single GCD and you can spend the aetherflow on energy drain, or any ability, instead. The only time I use recitation on adlo over excog is one instance in e4s for a double tank buster and my tank needs the shield more than the hp. In every other instance, recitation excog will heal plenty, and I get more DPS out of it.

[Eloah]

The biggest advantage to recitation excog is that it doesn't cost a single GCD and you can spend the aetherflow on energy drain, or any ability, instead. The only time I use recitation on adlo over excog is one instance in e4s for a double tank buster and my tank needs the shield more than the hp. In every other instance, recitation excog will heal plenty, and I get more DPS out of it.

Ah yes the Meta, how dare I go against it.

[Billythepancake]

Ah yes the Meta, how dare I go against it.

You do you, but to say recitation adlo is better than excog makes no sense, even in non meta. Instead of using an aetherflow on excog and forcing a critlo, you could recitation excog and get a lustrate. I don't really care how you play the game, nor do I demand meta, but forcing a critlo does not have more advantages over forcing a crit excog in most circumstances, especially when you can stack crit and get critlos on your own fairly easily.