SCH as a poison-themed healer

[Silver-Strider]

Parse

Tbph, I wasn't even aware someone had parsed me lol. I know my SCH gameplay isn't perfect and I will never admit to being a top tier SCH either. IIRC during this fight, the WHM was a bit sporadic in their healing, overriding some of my own heals with theirs, such as using Rapture when Whispering Dawn was active or would already have Asylum up that I didn't feel a Soil was necessary. It's not so much that I was trying to optimize my Aetherflow usage in the fight but rather trying to play around the WHM so that we wouldn't overheal (which still failed horribly lol). Lack of communication and coordination was the culprit more than anything.

[Jamini]

Tbph, I wasn't even aware someone had parsed me lol. I know my SCH gameplay isn't perfect and I will never admit to being a top tier SCH either. IIRC during this fight, the WHM was a bit sporadic in their healing, overriding some of my own heals with theirs, such as using Rapture when Whispering Dawn was active or would already have Asylum up that I didn't feel a Soil was necessary. It's not so much that I was trying to optimize my Aetherflow usage in the fight but rather trying to play around the WHM so that we wouldn't overheal (which still failed horribly lol). Lack of communication and coordination was the culprit more than anything.

Such as it is! Either way my point remains that Aetherflow is a healing resource first, DPS distant second. While it's great to optimize for damage (and we should!) saying SCH should rely too heavily on the faerie is really doing the job a disservice.

SCH has fantastic throughput when played well. (See, for example, the Rubicante solo SCH clear) A lot of people just...want the bare minimum or less of the job. Which is a shame really.

Also, even doing on-content clears of savage puts you in something like the top 20% of all players in a job. This game has A LOT of players, and the vast majority don't raid.

Re: Asylum and Soil, those two actually pair really well. Asylum is a 10% healing up, Soil is a 10% mitigation so not only is there no HPS lost... but Asylum actually boosts soil's regen if people are damaged during at least part of its duration. It's not like stacking Kera or Collective Unconsiousness where you lose mit effectiveness from the stack. Though if it's being used at a poortime then the healing may get wasted to overheal.

[Sebazy]

Re: Asylum and Soil, those two actually pair really well. Asylum is a 10% healing up, Soil is a 10% mitigation so not only is there no HPS lost... but Asylum actually boosts soil's regen if people are damaged during at least part of its duration. It's not like stacking Kera or Collective Unconsiousness where you lose mit effectiveness from the stack. Though if it's being used at a poortime then the healing may get wasted to overheal.

God yes, Soil and Asylum did a ton of heavy lifting especially throughout Eden. They synergise almost too well.

[deston07]

You also did not once cast Sacred soil, which is fairly morbid considering just how powerful that is.

This is the reason I strongly dislike Scholar right now.
I main Sage but when my co-healer is missing we PF normally leading to me WHM.
Almost all of the Scholars I have met recently just burn Aetherflow on ED's never using soil.

I loved Scholar in Shadow bringers was my main then, I very much dislike it now.