Quote Originally Posted by Liam_Harper View Post
Not true because Deploy exists. SCH is considered the strongest barrier healer for endgame, having both superior dps and stronger mitigation. If you buffed Adlo, Deploy would be even more ridiculously good. Succor also has 100 more heal than Eprog (which can matter for things like E tactics).

Sage is "comfier" to play than SCH, which is a perk of the job, but in optimized situations SCH is better. That said, a 1.5 sec cast on both GCD shields would be perfectly fair.
Deployment is one of the things that feel properly balanced between the two jobs. It's a 60 potency stronger shield than a zoe empowered eukrasian prognosis. If it can be crited ahead of time using recitation even better. That being said, its higher stakes because the shield can get lost/diminished before it is spread, the target could be positioned poorly so that not everyone gets it, etc. So its balanced out against sage's Zoe pretty well. I can't say the same for thing for sacred soil vs kerachole, though. Or the fact that to "double bubble" scholar needs to first summon seraph to use seraphic veil, whereas sage just presses one instant cast cooldown that gives 10% damage reduction and an additional bubble.

When we look at the entire toolkit, sage is just way more convenient at keeping people alive.