Quote Originally Posted by Billythepancake View Post
The main thing that made Miasma II better is that it had single target applications as well as aoe. In single target it was better to weave with M2 over Ruin II, but it had the risk of A) you needing to get closer and B) more Mana cost. It added on SCH's risk/reward gameplay, something Art of War does not replicate in the slightest.

I think the worst part about AoW, if it were added on top of what SCH already had, I'd have said it was a great addition. Spamming a dot in AoE situations never felt right, and art of war would have fixed that. The problem is that it wasn't added on top, it outright replaced everything.
A thing to remember, it looks like they didn't want any healer to have AoE DoT's. Also taken away was Bane from Sch and Aero III from WHM that were AoE DoT's. It wasn't just SCH that lost AoE DoT and the only healer that didn't was AST.