7.0 Healer Wishlist

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I think ultimately the problem with SGE and SCH comes down to SGE has niches and SCH has niches however SGE’s niches are almost entirely geared towards accessibility of the shield healer role (namely its incredibly high mobility, its absolute lack of limits on its healing potential and its wealth of free double weave space) while SCH’s niches are almost entirely based around optimisation (seraph being better than both haima and panhaima in one ability but being annoying as hell to use, critlo, chain)

Now this wouldn’t be a problem otherwise (especially since WHM and AST are basically balanced around the same design philosophy) except unlike WHM and AST who in practice play very differently and the regen healers just aren’t that useful in high end content (lilys intentionally slow WHM down while AST has the second highest APM behind NIN) SCH and SGE functionally play almost identically. The difference being energy drain but still if you ignore energy drain (which is very possible since SCH still usually either comes in first of second in damage with no energy drain used) you can basically one to one transplant a healing plan between the two and still be almost entirely fine all the way up to ultimate

Once you reach ultimate there just isn’t really a need for SGE’s accessibility advantages, if you can do ultimate you can set up seraph 3 GCD’s in advance over pressing panhaima during the cast bar, it’s why SCH tends to dominate ultimates (it always has), if SCH was actively challenged in ultimates on another front (say its DPS options) then SGE’s accessibility would return as a factor

Unfortunately there is really no counter to spreadlo’s raw Mitigative power but it’s incredibly rare a mechanic absolutely requires spreadlo