How often do you use sacred soil?

[Meta-Flare]

So I'm going to be switching to sch when I get some time off school to actually play and I was looking at the skills and was just curious. Do you keepit on cool down or save it for big hits?

Also if a move says only available while under the effects of aetherflow does this mean it consumes it like energy drain? Or are there moves that don't consume it?

[Sylvanna]

Sacred Soil is on a 30s cd so you can use it twice per Aetherflow. For end game raiding in Binding Coil, you would want to mitigate as much damage as possible as we are undergeared. Keeping it on cd or saving it for big hits would really depend on the fight, and how much damage is being taken by the tanks or raid, i.e. situational.

For example: On Turn 1 BC, you would save Sacred Soil for when the stacks on the boss increase (due to fools messing up with slimes or w/e) and the tanks get hit more. However, on Turn 2 ADS, you would be better off chaining Sacred Soil since there is always a tank taking huge damage because of the vulnerability stacks.



And yes, it consumes one Aetherflow charge like Energy Drain.

[BoBoz]

Depends on the fight.
I'll save it for big hit, if I know it will happen.
If there won't be any big hit coming, I'll just use it whenever I want, but make sure it will be off CD when the big hit comes.

It consumes 1 Aetherflow stack, yes like energy drain, from maximum of 3 stacks at level 40.

[ReviiLagoon]

It is incredibly useful on Garuda. The Sisters spawn at exactly 3 minute intervals, so what you do is the second you see garuda dissapear, cast Eye for an Eye on the tank, Sacred soil the area, Virus Garuda, and succor / heal away. By the time the next sisters spawn everything is off cooldown, and Sacred Soil helps mitigate a ton of the damage by the sisters, making it fairly easy to keep everyone alive assuming they are positioned right.

[Taruranto]

It is incredibly useful on Garuda. The Sisters spawn at exactly 3 minute intervals, so what you do is the second you see garuda dissapear, cast Eye for an Eye on the tank, Sacred soil the area, Virus Garuda, and succor / heal away. By the time the next sisters spawn everything is off cooldown, and Sacred Soil helps mitigate a ton of the damage by the sisters, making it fairly easy to keep everyone alive assuming they are positioned right.

It's pretty great for Titan too, SS on P5 stomps=lifesaver.

[Zoeila]

-10% aint shit though not worth it imo rather save the stacks for lustrate.

[Alindra]

-10% aint shit though not worth it imo rather save the stacks for lustrate.

If I did the math right, when Titan jumps, if everyone has 3200 health that usually takes 2/3's of everyone's health, one succor would stop about 1689 damage amongst all your party members. Then you can use 2 lustrates to heal 1 or 2 people for 640 per. Thus, one SS and 2 Lustrates would equal about 2969 in healing/damage prevented. And 3 Lustrates is 1920.

So yea. 10% is worth a fair amount. Unless my math is horribly wrong, which I suppose it could be.

[ReviiLagoon]

-10% aint shit though not worth it imo rather save the stacks for lustrate.

Lustrate is more of an emergency heal more than anything else, when things get crazy and you need to immediately heal the tank. If you are constantly taking AOE damage, such in Garuda's case, then the damage prevented will be much greater than what a single lustrate could ever heal for. Also, not only will it prevent damage, Sacred Soil can save you MP, by preventing damage, there is less damage that needs to be healed. So you will most likely save the WHM or yourself from needing to physick someone.

The idea of a SCH is to be a healer who excels in preventing damage, and they are damn good at it when played correctly. Ever seen an astral flow of a primal go off and think, "That's it? That did like 25% of my HP" You know your SCH is doing it right when that happens.

[Meta-Flare]

So if/when I can attack does bane spread all three or just one of the three? Also if/when you do get to throw some dots, do you use shadow flare at all?

For whispering dawn, it says own and all nearby party members. Does own mean my hp or the faeries hp?

[Estellios]

Sacred Soil's barrier stacks with Succor's and works wonderfully with WHM's Medica II. Sacred Soil before Earthen Fury and Tumult spam in HM Titan is amazing. With a SCH doing this alongside my healing, my group can survive the tumults with like 70-80% HP compared to 2 WHMS which is usually results in 20-40% HP depending on the number of tumults. There are Weight of the Lands immediately after so being at higher HP counts for a lot as if someone gets hit by a weight they will (barely) live and having a living member vs. a dead one is an incredible difference in that fight.