Quote Originally Posted by Lilseph View Post
Genuinely don't understand why you're trying to compare Diurnal CU to Sacred Soil instead of Nocturnal CU when they both fill completely different niches. Especially since you'll mostly see Diurnal AST being paired with SCH anyway, it's a little unfair to compare the two complements.
I find it hard to believe Diurnal CU and Sacred Soil fill completely different niches if they have almost the same effect for mitigating a single hit (most common use case).

I'm not comparing against Nocturnal CU because:
- SS is clearly better in the single-hit case, since it also heals the party.
- You're not gonna have a Noct AST + SCH pair, since the toolkit synergy is atrocious. There is no planning question of whether the SCH should use SS, then AST should use CU only if SS is on CD.
- Diurnal AST is all-around better unless you absolutely need Noct AST shields, and can't get by with Neutral Sect.