Quote Originally Posted by Nizzi View Post
Honestly I really don't get why Scholar is retaining Chain Stratagem, especially with the "split" between shield and regen healers coming in Endwalker. With AST as a regen healer with incredibly powerful oGCD heals, why would you want to take WHM over it? AST offers buffs to the party and is able to heal well, and "healing well" is WHM's thing, right? So if we're playing by the designation that the developers are now saying they're designing by, wouldn't it make more sense for WHM to get party buffs to compensate for this too if WHM's only utility DPS wise is that it does "high DPS"?
Honestly, I thought it was strange too until someone in my FC pointed out how it's split:

2 pure healers
1 has rDPS buffs (AST)
1 does not (WHM)

2 shield healers
1 has rDPS buffs (SCH)
1 does not (SGE).

So regardless of if you prefer shield or pure healing you have the option of if you wanna engage with rDPS buffs or not. And... I can kinda get behind that.