Can we stop punishing shield healers for playing together?

[Saefinn]

It has always been a difficult one to solve simply because shield stacking can mean mechanics cheesing. SCH and SGE have enough to handle pure healing, but sure it'll be less efficient versus WHM or AST. But IMO that really is only a problem if you're looking at high end content, by which point you're talking EX, Savage etc. and the devs have intentionally made a pure & shield healer split there, so you wouldn't be doing SCH/SGE or SCH/SCH or SGE/SGE for that content.

[rewd]

It has always been a difficult one to solve simply because shield stacking can mean mechanics cheesing. SCH and SGE have enough to handle pure healing, but sure it'll be less efficient versus WHM or AST. But IMO that really is only a problem if you're looking at high end content, by which point you're talking EX, Savage etc. and the devs have intentionally made a pure & shield healer split there, so you wouldn't be doing SCH/SGE or SCH/SCH or SGE/SGE for that content.

People will be doing whatever gives more DPS to the party, that includes SCH/SGE and even solo healer runs if it comes to that.

[Saefinn]

People will be doing whatever gives more DPS to the party, that includes SCH/SGE and even solo healer runs if it comes to that.

Aye, they would if it comes to that, I mean in meta set ups of course. I figure maybe it'd be unlikely because I expect a dual shield healer set up would spend more on healing buttons to compensate any handicap as the OP is complaining about said handicap. But then yeah, it all still depends on balance, if like 5.0 and shield heals become inefficient and if SGE and/or SCH output that little extra damage then that's what's gonna count with meta. And if shield healing goes the way of 5.0 then I think outside of meta set ups, then people will just take their preferred jobs anyway.

[rewd]

Aye, they would if it comes to that, I mean in meta set ups of course. I figure maybe it'd be unlikely because I expect a dual shield healer set up would spend more on healing buttons to compensate any handicap as the OP is complaining about said handicap. But then yeah, it all still depends on balance, if like 5.0 and shield heals become inefficient and if SGE and/or SCH output that little extra damage then that's what's gonna count with meta. And if shield healing goes the way of 5.0 then I think outside of meta set ups, then people will just take their preferred jobs anyway.

The only problem SCH+SGE have is that their GCD shields overwrite, which is not really an issue. Apart for that, it's a really powerful combination. You have less pure healing, but you also need less pure healing when you have Panhaima, Consolation and an almost permanent 10% DR. Not to mention the great synergy some of their skills have (Protraction+Krasis, FI+Pneuma...).