Can we stop punishing shield healers for playing together?

[Deceptus]

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.

If you're chain casting Shields you're doing something extremely wrong. You're generally only using them for Tank Busters or Raidwides which comes out roughtly. . . every 30s to 1 minute. Which lines up perfectly with WHM / AST ability shields. What that does is punish SCH/SGE teams, which in PUG content you have no control over your team mate.

I cover my hp bar fully or dps or half a tank bar with e diag and again alco crit and e diag same pot and sage has better boost heal potency heal abilities than sch do. You should try to make some evidence to prove your so called statistics rather than throwing insults else your point is whack and invalid. The game literally has both showing same potency.

I've noticed this as well. When I crit with SGE shield, it covers up a lot more of a tanks HP bar then a SCH crit Adlo. Despite both of them being a 300 Potency Heal with a 1.8 shield modifier. Both have the same Maim & Mend traits so something else is boosting SGE shield Crits more than SCH shield Crits.