SCH needs help

[AmeliaVerves]

Tbh now I'm confused. In all my years of playing mmos I've always heard mitigation is always stronger then healing. While I get it in some situations.

Can't speak for other MMOs, but in XIV shield potencies are always inferior to direct healing. This knowledge is little known tho I think, which is also the reason ppl go nuts if you play diurnal AST when paired with a WHM even tho it's perfectly viable if the fight does not require any shielding to survive mechanics. (Which is 90% of all fights in this game btw)

The only unique thing shields actually bring to the table is the increase of effective HP, which makes you survive a mechanic that would otherwise kill you. Beyond that they are plain useless, because direct heals are stronger and cheaper.
So if you know that your party can survive damage without shields, don't apply them but rather use heals/HoTs afterwards.


This is for high level play tho. If you go with PF a lot you might want to shield everything to make sure the monkeys errrr, I mean teammates don't die to avoidable damage or vuln debuffs or whatever.