How could you do this to AST?

[Grimoire-M]

soon it be like sch/ sch ast/ast gg lol if all shields gone as ast dirunal regens cant stack with each other.noct regens will work with dirunal regens as dirunal shields will work with noct. Though its not a meta but 2 ast is so godly since then then there can be 7 regen 4 shields total if both use the co/ci/cu neutral stuff at once as they all stack, only cards dont.Think this over SE. Also please can anyone tell me why 2 ast would not be the best comp for alot of things since they can stack up on everything but cards, with their amazing weaving mobility?

LB generation penalties and SCH is genuinely a better healer than a Noct AST in every respect that would matter to a Diurnal AST. SCH is the only one of the three healers that genuinely functions as a good cohealer. Mostly due to flexibility and free passive healing. Despite it being broken historically it’s still designed around supplementing another healer with a large toolbox of cooldowns. I wish SE hadn’t buffed its DPS the way they did for that reason.

[IceBlueNinja]

LB generation penalties and SCH is genuinely a better healer than a Noct AST in every respect that would matter to a Diurnal AST. SCH is the only one of the three healers that genuinely functions as a good cohealer. Mostly due to flexibility and free passive healing. Despite it being broken historically it’s still designed around supplementing another healer with a large toolbox of cooldowns. I wish SE hadn’t buffed its DPS the way they did for that reason.

oh understood about the LB part never knew that same jobs makes lb regen slower thanks for that info truely but... the whole sch shield/better than noct not true, cata is only single target and happens only 15% chance while ast can noct field+ noct celestial for 250% entire party immediately. sch need to hope on cat and then have to spread it, ET has a horrible long cd while CO only has 60 second cd, only time aspected benefic noct loses to alqo is if the cata happens because alco has a 300 pot but if it do not crit even aspected benefic slighty win with its already set 250% migi. succor use to win aspected helios via the cata spread tatic but since CO became a shield that even ET shield is losing also the thing that netrual sect boast heals of ast by 20% too. in 60+ content ast is winning naturally on migi as all sch has is succor unless they do a algo and it cata to spread it, then the 80 skill fairy they got , ofc she wont be available at that time to sch strict lvl 80 which maybe they want to probably have seraph at a lower lvl and give sch a new 80 spell. think what would still make succor/alco win noct field/aspected noct is if the sch use that illuminate and disspiate spell which then grants em a 30% heal boost which idk if they do that or not, tried that healer but its just not my cup of tea vs whm/ast itself. I credit those who play it it however I will even throw noct under the bus this rare time because dirunal shields via netrual sect/ci using aspected benfic=450% single migi vs noct field + co for 350% via aspect benefic. Since most say overall regens are better and I acknowledge it, from what I see too most heavy content tends to be whm/ast whether dirunal or noct vs ast/sch whm/sch. Also yes while not the meta indeed cause the slow lb thing dirunal shields and noct ones stack up nicely compared to a sch shield stacking with a dirunal or noct ast shield(ofc field and gal dont since they do not work with each other). SCH won indeed on migi in stormblood but to me barely is on sbh when they gave co shield and added CI for dirunal whos shield too was 250% but they nerf it to 200 % to make up for that sloppy mess 100pot only heal they had put on ast heals e.e

[Semirhage]

the whole sch shield/better than noct not true

LB generation penalties and SCH is genuinely a better healer than a Noct AST in every respect that would matter to a Diurnal AST.

Scholar's healing capability is more than a potency-measuring contest between two GCD shields. Shielding is a niche capability in FFXIV. Your off-GCD heals are what make or break your class most of the time, not the size of your bubbles. Scholar is a better healer than Noct AST because it's better at supporting and enabling its cohealer to squeeze more out of their kit.