Quote Originally Posted by Allegor View Post
I always assumed people say SCH has better shields because they can make it crit on demand thanks to recitation
A deployed adlo is the strongest shield in the game (its base shield potency with no buffs is about 810 potency of shield) but it is also very resource intensive which is its tradeoff

Adlo is a GCD you have to stand still to cast, recitation is a tool with other healing potential (600 potency critdom or 1200 potency critcog while removing their ED cost) and any buffs to its potency have other uses (protraction is also a 10% mitigation and can be used to buff other heals including the tanks own heals, dissipation is risky and usually done specifically for damage and fey illumination is also a raidwide mitigation)

Zoe+e prog only costs the GCD and Zoe who’s only other real use is changing Pnuema from 600 potency to 900 potency