Quote Originally Posted by Calysto View Post
Just pointing out some hypothetical things ; because some of the skills are direct parallels.

In case gcd heals/barriers are needed (if that even happens) they seems in favor of SGE.
-Barriers get get the same potency (Aoe has a different formula but it 320)
-SGE get ogcd+instant cast instead of 2s cast
-If you really need the gcd aoe heal(let's say for a full hp doom), 300 spamable potency instead of 200
-zoe+pepsi seems better than recitation+emergency and still can crit.

Also, haima seems like SGE parallel to excog ; but better ?
-I'm not sure if the same hit can consume more that one stack
-50 less total potency, reccource free, longer recast but
-You got an aoe version :
-I guess that would be the parrallel to consolation (less potency but pure shield)

I may be biased ; but I can't find much comparing them that (on the paper) doen't give SGE at least way more flexibility than SCH.
That's basically it, SGE appears to have a bit more flexibility.

I'm not saying SCH is bad, and I'm not one of those SCH players that cry for the return of a million DoTs. But it would of been nice if some of the skill clunkiness was addressed; especially now that we have another Barrier healer to bounce off of.

Dissipation has been an issue since it's inception. It's going on 3 expansions without a significant change.

SCH's only AoE heal prior to Succor is Whispering Dawn at level 20. And while that's not bad per se, the other healers get a spammable AoE at 10. At least move WD to level 15, so SCHs have it in all dungeons.

With how SGE operates with Eukrasia, it would make more sense to move Emergency Tactics to a lower level, like maybe 40; and reduce the CD to maybe 5 seconds.

SCH also needs more DPS options, not in the form of DoTs, but comparable big skills like the other healers have. Energy Drain and Ruin II are just so lackluster. All the other healers have big skills/spells that deal AoE damage with fall-off, can't SCH get something like that.

And this new capstone skill is another in a long list of disappointments. Why movement speed, why not attack speed, like the former Fey Wind, or an AoE Esuna like the old Fey Caress. Almost anything would be better than just movement speed, it doesn't even make sense on SCH, unless they are trying to go for a military march or something.

I'm trying to just get all of this negativity out of my system before the launch.