Quote Originally Posted by DarkLordCthulhu View Post
I was just saying SCH can be more liberal with our SS use. Cause of personal experience i guess i feel it should be the SCH responsibility since i dont see WHM doing it.
Again, why would you be using stoneskin instead of adlo unless maybe you just wanted to adlo->swift+stoneskin for some extra mitigation perhaps? Adlo has a chance at crit+double shield while stoneskin is percentage of max hp. Yeah, the whm shouldnt be using stoneskin too much anyways, just on some occasions. But for a sch it's just better to use adlo. and in that situation you mentioned, if you are getting stoneskin up on both of those tanks I hope you are also getting adlo on them. and in that case Im pretty sure some of that would have fallen off. It just seems a bit senseless.

and since stoneskin scales on the max hp of whoever it is cast on, there really arent a whole lot of situations where you want to spend time in battle applying stoneskin to healers and dd's. if you have that much time, DPS. Better to use succor and DPS than spend forever getting stoneskin up, usually. Or if you feel you must, just use adlo. On lower HP classes, since adlo doesnt scale on max hp, it should be worth quite a bit more, especially a crit. These arent real numbers but a 9k hp tank adlo'd for a 800 shield would be stoneskinned for 900 but a caster with 5k hp with a 800 adlo shield would have only been stoneskinned for 500. And even in the tank example if stoneskin were worth more in ehp, why use it when the difference is going to be minimal, the cast time longer, and no chance to crit for a double shield?