Quote Originally Posted by Deceptus View Post
Laughs in AST Neutral Sect.

Those 30s WHM/AST shields also have 2 charges, are instant cast, and free.
You're missing the point.

AST/WHM barriers are exclusive to cooldowns. Even though Divine Benison and Celestial Intersection are only 30 second cooldowns, they're single target only. Meanwhile Neutral Sect is a limited duration effect once every 120 seconds that comes at the opportunity cost of MP and DPS.

SCH/SGE barriers, while generally garbage healing tools in 95% of circumstances, can be used during any GCD. Were they to stack together, could enable them to more aggressively brute force their way through prog and give SCH/SGE comps a significant advantage in learning new fights for the first time.

There's an argument that could be made for how important it is to balance around specifically prog vs general casual gameplay experience since the majority of the community doesn't really care about prog, and thus an alternative solution should be found, but it really doesn't matter as it stands because Adloquium/Succor and E. Diagnosis/E. Prognosis are some of the assiest heals on each healer's respective kit, beating out only Physick and vanilla Diagnosis/Prognosis. The inability to overlap barriers shouldn't matter because you really shouldn't be using them outside of the most dire or niche scenarios, and if you are in that position, only 1 healer should realistically need to do so anyway, which should automatically go to SCH because their barriers are better.