Quote Originally Posted by Eloah View Post
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.
- They addressed some of the clunkiness of the job, though. We can deploy without giving the game buffer time to apply shields; we can toggle Fey Union on and off without DPS loss; pet scaling seems to have been drastically reduced; pet seems to be more responsive, but we will probably have to try this ourselves.

- SCH not having an AoE makes sense. You already barely need AoE anyway at that level, but SCH has the fairy, whose Embrace works like an AoE heal in a light party. AST and WHM needs an AoE skill because they don't have a pet. You could make an argument for SGE having Kardia and Prognosis, but this makes sense too. In order to mimic Embrace, you need to DPS and to costantly reapply Kardia. We know SE's stance on healing, so they are never putting so much responsibility on someone, especially at low levels when someone might be new to healing and feel overwhelmed.

- SCH got movement speed because it's useful and also fits job identity (it's fun to imagine SCH as a general telling troops to move). It's not haste because it interferes with other job's rotation; it's not AoE Esuna because it would be extremely underwhelming as a level 90 skill and too situational (and it would be OP in TEA, so AoE Esuna is 100% never coming back in any shape and form). Movement speed also makes sense with the damage reduction buff.