Quote Originally Posted by Kabooa View Post
I included Scholar in the main group because while I personally don't find dot management engaging, the loss of Selene, SF/SS exclusion, AF management, and overpowered Shield management were still heavy enough blows to warrant it.
I agree that dot management itself wasn't very intersting. I definately wouldn't want to play a DPS that was entirely based around managing a whole bunch of dots.

That said, what made SCH so fun for me all the way up to and including SB was that the dots, combined with Cleric Stance, created a fun juggle between DPSing and healing. Every time you started a fight, you'd race to put on all your dots along with bane and some AOE damage with cleric stance on, then turn it off to heal the tank back up for whatever is lost. It was basically playing 'how low can you go' all the time.

But the Cleric Stance twist was what it so fun to me. Because even though SCH had so many oGCDs, you couldn't effectively use them until you turned Cleric Stance off. Percentage based Lustrate was good as it could be used to fix your own mistakes, though they got rid of that because SE probably thought that healers shouldn't be spending so much time in Cleric Stance.

While SCH was definitely overpowered in pretty much every iteration (including ShB though to a lesser degree), it's pretty obvious that SE has no idea what they're doing in regards to dealing with that, as the abundance of oGCDs and lack of meaningful GCD heals is the real culprit, and instead SE just removed SCH's DPS options.