No love for Sch

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I mean it doesn't really have anything to do with Sage so much as it has to do with you only pick SCH over Noct Ast for sacred soil, sometimes chain or if you don't want to deal with star/cards.
Having Sage added and SCH having nothing really changed makes people feel like that trend will continue.

You pick a healer that feels the worst to play for the fact it has 1 skill that makes mitigation charts essentially irrelevant.

I think its a bit dishonest to reduce SCH's kit to being a soil bot, spreadlo and chain are also pretty decent, as are excog and indom as well as both fairy abilities (not fae gauge.) Soil is the peak of its kit though I can agree there. But that still doesn't explain why it should be reworked or how its kit is poorly designed. Saying SCH is bad when its still being picked in every optimal comp (which is the only time these arguments actually matter) is wrong in my opinion. Its identity is solid, and the devs not changing anything fundamental only proves this. Are there things that can be better? Yes, namely the pet AI, but the pet AI being bad is an engine problem because SCH isn't the only one who suffers from it.

Eh, I'd argue that all the healers currently have bad designs and will probably continue to be badly designed with the exception of maybe sage.

Healers have way too many healing tools for the amount of healing they actually need to do and barely any damage tools for the other 90% of the time where they're doing damage. Sure in terms of both numbers and job identity nothing is wrong, but playing a healer just feels... soulless?

But hey, maybe SCH and SGE have barriers that stack and SCH retains its current healing capabilities, making the meta SCH + SGE, and people will stop running WHM and AST, which IMO would be hilarious but also sad.

I mean that's a valid critique and I am def in agreement there, no reason for healer kits to have so many abilities and most of them being waysided because you never need them. But that has nothing to do with SCH itself needing to be reworked and more that healers as a role need adjustments.