SCH vs WHM .. something is off?

[YuiSasaki]

I'm playing SCH as my main and i totally agree with Aphrini.

Sch dont need the improved Protect, considering that Eos has a skill which increases MagArm.
Not to mention that a critted adloq is still way better than a Stoneskin (enhanced or not) to begin with.

Sacred Soil should stay on AF stacks. The most important thing as a SCH (and probably as a WHM as well) is to expect incoming damage and prepare for it (via adloq, succor and sacred soil). Taking it off the AF stacks would just result in placing it randomly and being OP, as it costs nothing and has a rather short CD.

I kind of agree with you that the Int increasing traits are pointless as a SCH and should be replaced by something like increases MND (or PIE to create a difference between WHM and SCH - and please dont flame like "WTF DUDE ARE U FUCKING KIDDING ME WE NO NEEDZ PIETY GO AWAY WE NEEDZ MORE MINDZ TO INCREAZE OUR HEALING OUTPUT ZOMFGTROLOLOLOLOL NOOB"). But it should NOT be replaced by an enhanced Stoneskin or enhanced Protect.

The one healing class that actually needs a buff is the WHM, considering that PoM and Benediction have a CD that is way to long(and other things - not to mention that benediction fails to often..).

[Akiva_Ninazu]

Oh, don't get me wrong. WHM needs work. MP management and threat management in general are terrible and there's a litany of changes needed to make Benediction and PoM workable (plus I think WHM in particular is in sore need of a placeable AOE heal - think Sacred Soil, but with a slow regen instead of mitigation. SWotR did this quite well on Sorc healers), but this one difference in the classes seemed out of whack to me. I'd be willing to bet it's a hold-over from WHM being the only healer in the dev process for God knows how long. As it stands though:

"So, which one of these healers is the mitigation one?"
"Scholar."
"So which one do we give the better shared mitigation skills to?"
"White Mage"



I switch back and forth a lot, but WHM is more or less my "main," but it still seems wonky. Don't think SCH should get both and I'd be loathe to see WHM get nerfed in any way since it already has other systemic issues, but I could see SCH getting a bit of a mitigation boost, too.

What if soil came off the stacks but had a casting cost equivalent to something like Medica II on WHM? I could rationalize something that puts a little more pressure on the SCH MP bar, since it seems like, at least in my experience running SCH, you really have to derp up your "rotation" as it is to feel any pressure on MP management.