Quote Originally Posted by Roeshel View Post
I don't know why sch is thought to be the healer that focuses on shields. To me shields seem like an afterthought to the SCH job. They have only two shields on global cooldown which are nothing amazing and none of them are instant. Their long fairy regen in most cases makes the use of gcd shield completely useless.
Back in ARR before we had Indomitability, Scholar had to rely on their shields to get through harder content. Eos and Selene, while ridiculous, were balanced around the fact they could only handle limited amounts of sustained damage, forcing scholars to use Adlo and Succor to mitigate burst damage. They actually had a significant weakness in not having a perfect answer to AoE and non-tank burst healing (Lustrate was %HP based and healed way more on tanks as a result). White Mage had much better raw healing tools and some extremely mana efficient regens but couldn’t mitigate (Stoneskin had the same problems as Lustrate) or sustain their MP very well. Healers under this binary were balanced around eachother’s weaknesses. Heavenward threw a giant wrench known as AST into that, and Scholar got overtuned to make things ‘fit’ regardless of your party composition, which is ultimately what made AST broken. AST was playing catch-up against a monster of free healing and WHM had every bit of its original kit stripped down to accommodate the nonsense these two couldn’t bring, which felt mind boggling given how undertuned it was.

Scholar was broken for a long time, but it’s original identity as the shield/mitigation/pet healer is still there. Indom just makes it super easy to play if ya mess up. It’s why I’m fine with nerfing it’s throughout in particular but want Adlo/Succor to be made into full shields to get ahead of the HP creep brought on from the accessory changes.