Quote Originally Posted by Zaytex View Post
I think having stuff like Pneuma be a DPS gain would be better than a DPS loss. At least then you have decision making to consider and factor in if you're able to sacrifice that healing button for additional DPS, like Miasma 2 with its heavy MP tax back in SB. Could you risk not having the MP for additional shields for better DPS? Having it DPS neutral means it'll just sit on your hot bar until it has a use case, and having it be a DPS loss means it'll be the last thing you use, no different than a medica 2 type of deal.

Philosophia is better for situations where you can HoT heal your party, but in cases of needing instant and recovery healing Seraphism is definitely better, it'll have use cases in prog (when you need instant heals) and in reclears (when you want insta shields on SCH for movement, etc).

With AST being simplified to boredom, having MP issues on the horizon, and SGE/SCH getting such powerful regen healing whilst keeping their powerful mitigations (which AST/WHM have to burn a cooldown to get too) I'm already predicting we're going to enter another SGE/SCH meta lol - Why bring WHM/AST when the shielders have better mits, and powerful regens?
I disagree that having it be a gain is better. Look at how assize is treated. You throw it out on CD and ignore it. It was bad enough having sages do the eukrasia+pneuma opener in my PFs and forcing me to pick up their slack so they could *maybe* squeeze out one more dosis. The thing is a 900 potency aoe heal is just... too strong to ignore. I have the same feelings towards macrocosmos. If they have a use case where using pneuma would entirely simplify it, but not using it is possible but difficult, then the trade becomes worth thinking about. If it's a gain you'll use it on cooldown, if its neutral itll just sit until its needed, and if it's a loss you need to think about it.

Instant and recovery healing is basically entirely covered by pneuma anyways. I reiterate, 900 potency burst heal with Zoe. Seraphism isnt for the situations where you would use pneuma, it's for the situations where you need to spam cure 3. The last time I remember doing that was TEA.

Also you would not use instant shields on scholar for movement. You'd use ruin 2. The only place Seraphism would be absolutely cracked for is wroth of flames, which was... basically a mechanic solved entirely by using spreadlo and some mits. Source: I cleared it with a scholar. All I did was throw some neutral sect shields on the stack, I dont think we even dropped to seeing health.