Quote Originally Posted by Anhra View Post
Endwanker SCH is still the same mess since ShB. The reduced cast time on dps spells is just a meme that grants the illusion of the job being faster, but makes hardly a difference in spamming Broilccoli, since youre tied to 2,5sec GCD anyway.
Speaking of which, Broilccoli IV is literally Broilccoli III (both have 295 Potency) from ShB with a new animation.

Squeenix should really ask the FFXI team for some Job design advice, it cant be that we have to deal with this mess for another 2-3 years at least until we get another useless QoL package of worthless passives and stacks on already existing Skills.

I wonder if SCH will ever be a actual SCH, instead of generic Healer #4.
SCH having a 2.5 sec GCD is the norm (as is with all healers), but having a 1.5 sec cast time means you can weave an healing oGCD per Broil without paying any DPS tax. This lets you not require using Ruin II to weave, and enables better slidecasting. The pet responsiveness has improved drastically so it's much more reactionary than before. When casting GCD shields, the shields will deploy before your cast time finishes, so you can immediately deploy them on the same GCD without waiting an extra GCD. These are solid improvements to SCH compared to its ShB iteration. These QoLs are very much needed. Endwalker SCH just feels lacking in comparison because it didn't feel like SCH got new toys to really play around with. However, Protraction and Expedient are amazing tools that make SCH's healing toolkit flesh out a lot more than before if people just use them properly.

People are complaining about 1.5 sec cast time being boring, and I do agree it's a very bland take on giving weave windows. The alternative however, if all other healers had 1.5 sec cast windows and SCH had 2.5 sec cast windows? People would be angry for days. :P