Quote Originally Posted by Silver-Strider View Post
This isn't even in practice.
Yes, it is. If you're using your abilities correctly, you will rarely be at 3 AF stacks when AF comes off CD.

Quote Originally Posted by Silver-Strider View Post
This is purely your fantasy...
...and people here say I have an attitude... <_<

It's a bit hard to tell because it's in Japanese, but the top TOP SCH right now used 13 Soils and 3 Indoms in their run. The current bottom one (still a TOP clear, so keep in mind this is still a decent player) used 14 Soils, 5 Indoms, 4 Excogs, and even 3 Lustrates. Feel free to go and tell them that they're overhealing and playing SCH wrong, though.

I find SGE very engaging. Far more engaging than Energy Drain, which is one of the most boring, uninspired, and outright stupid mechanics in the game - so much so, the Devs have already tried to remove it from the game. TWICE.

You already planned out your toolkit for the fight. You know what you need and what you don't need at what points in the fight after you've learned it.
Either you're talking of "purely your fantasy" or you've never been in a PF before, lol

SCH's doing more damage if we include ED. The point was if we removed ED, we'd probably need to buff SCH a smidge to make up for the 400 potency per minute (average; in practice this is mostly crammed in the buff window so it maths out to more like 500-600) difference. And Energy Drain isn't sustained damage, though - optimal play crams ED into the buff window. You aren't using an ED every 20 seconds as "sustained" damage, you're pooling it for either strong buff windows (2 min) or lesser buff windows (1 min), or you're doing it wrong. "Doesn't normally fall into the burst window"? What are you talking about? It's on a 60 sec CD. It should be up for every single burst window in the fight unless you've done something really wrong. The opener is entirely based on that, especially the Dissipation opener.

ED is what is almost always being cast in the burst windows. Broil is the sustained damage spell. The two are literally the exact opposite of what you say here.

You can stand by it if you wish...I don't believe you're correct. The Job, if ED was removed, would work basically exactly the same as it does today. The only difference is people wouldn't be afraid of using AF on Soil, Excog, and Indom, and so those abilities would get more use. If anything, this would be better for SCH, not worse.