Quote Originally Posted by Brandedblade View Post
Personally I consider Stormblood to be the peak of SCH's design. ARR was fine within its era for sure, but Heavensward Scholar was too powerful, iirc it could do like 2/3s of a dps' damage + plus could cover a fairly decent chunk of the healing in optimized settings. While Stormblood isn't perfect by any means (Miasma II and Ruin II where in poor and conflicting spots design wise in my opinion) I think it was a good compromise between accessibility and complexity.
I don’t think that being too powerful is really a good criticism, especially when it comes to dps. The Heavensward SCH felt good to play. They could have nerfed the dps potencies significantly and it would have felt the same to play, healing always comes first, and you always do as much damage as you can around the healing, however much that is. When it comes to healing potencies, it’s a bit more complicated because changing the healing potencies will change the way you use your kit, but generally speaking I think that if a kit is fun but the numbers aren’t right, you change the numbers, not the kit.