just doing quick maths cos I like the sound of some of these ideas, particularly the last one, my broil does around 9.5k, and my succor does around 4.8k, making a shield of 7.7k (ish). If we were to use this move on succor, I assume it'd apply the Volatize status to every player? In which case, it'd do (7700 / 5) * 8 damage, which would be like 12k. Which is fine by me, it fully refunds the lost broil, but I guess the problem is that if it's a dps gain in any way, it'd be expected to use it on CD for logs like Earthly Star. Though, with a 30s duration on shields, I guess it's probably fine? Is the 'duration' listed under Volatize the duration of Volatize on allies, or the duration of the ability to apply Volatize? Because if it's the former, I think it should match the duration of the shield it applies, and if it's the latter I think it'd be hilarious for stuff like Curtain Call, Terminal Relativity, etc. Times where you have to shield in quick succession during week 1, as the shield would get popped every GCD and your DPS would actually increase instead of decrease. SCH is already plenty strong on DPS though, so maybe knocking it down to 10% on Volatize too, so the shields are 'damage loss but not quite as much' would be less nails in the coffin for SGE

But since it'd allow us to use succor without screaming about how awful it is to have to use succor, I support. Also, if we did Exploitation Tactics > Recitation > Adlo > Deployment Tactics, would that spread the Exploitation to everybody? With my gear, that'd mean (11800 * 1.8) = 21240, * 8 = 169920. Divide that by 5 to get the 20% and that's about 34k lmao. Then we have to add 10% of 21240 for the Catalyze, giving us a total of about 36k. Even at 10% for Volatize we'd end up at almost 19k, double that of a Broil. Usually I don't like to get too hung up on maths when ideas are being floated but like this I think it'd end up being a button we press every time we're about to do Deployment Tactics and nothing else, similar to how Zoe only ever seems to get used on Pneuma for SGE. I'll still take it though, just so SCH shields feel less jank to use. And it'd fit in the lore to explain how they fought off the blackmages so easily because that bit never made massive sense, but if the black mages blew themselves up on the SCH's barriers, that does make a lot more sense