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How is it "less functional" than Selene/Eos? It heals for roughly the same amount, but instead of being entirely passive, it specifically drives you to be using your GCDs on attacks rather than dps-loss GCD heals. And unlike Selene/Eos, you can pick who it heals. And all of your oGCDs and such are centered on you rather then wherever that ADD fairy fluttered off to this time. I agree that their kit very clearly come across as "here are the Scholar spells, let's make Sage versions of them", but then they started deviating in pretty considerable ways. Toxikon and Phlegma have no equivalent for Scholars, and the Addersgall system has, imo, the best features of the Lily system and the Aethercharge system, being passively regenerated (but with an active gen on a CD, too), but spent on a bunch of different oGCDs rather than just "your main GCD ST/AoE heal, but instant and it doesn't cost DPS". Haima and Panhaima are very unique mechanics, and most of the cooldown oGCDs have at least two effects (healing and something else, like a DR buff or healing+ buff), and they can be comboed very effectively. Krasis -> Physis II -> Kerachole is a shockingly effective sequence that's available basically every trash pull in a dungeon, giving you ~300p of HoT healing every 3s on top of your ~225p Kardia healing, for the first ~15s of the fight.
Kardia is annoyingly less functional than Selene/eos because it requires weave windows to swap your target whereas eos will just do it for you, SCH also benefits from totem healing with the fairy, the fact that seraph is as powerful ability as it is and it lets you totem heal makes SCH far more useful than SGE in the majority of situations

And while SGE has a lot of unique heals not a lot of them are terribly functional, the pulsing shield combo is interesting but usually just amounts to “10% mitigation with shield 1 plus 600 potency heal from shields 2-5 expiring”, holos is strangely designed with the heal being upfront in an AOE situation which is kinda backwards for AOE, pneuma being a HOT is such a stupid design decision I have no idea why they did that and we have a whole thread dedicated to how useless Pepsis is

SCH also has the mother of all abilities in this game, deployment tactics, nothing comes close to it

It’s strange SGE looks designed better on paper and 100% plays better (I maimed SGE this tier) but once you delve even a millimeter under the surface SCH just kinda does everything SGE wants to do better and retains some measure of complexity with its decision making gameplay around aetherflow, seraph, aetherpact and dissipation