Why is stoneskin so... well, ugly?

[Alistaire]

AoE in combat would be a bit powerful though, at least a trigger that made it AoE out of combat wouldn't make it crazy powerful, just a bit more convenient.

[SummonerSenah]

Pop Presence of Mind before you stoneskin/protect everyone. Makes it a little faster.

[Yumi_umi]

So if a whm stoneskin is 18% shield of max hp..
Then what is an 18% shield on a healer with 6.7k hp?
Makes mountain busters into mountain punches.

[Kessya]

I recommend a macro that just casts it on your whole party.
Goes like this:
/ac "Stoneskin" <1> <wait.4>
/ac "Stoneskin" <2> <wait.4>
etc.

Does that help?

[Charmin]

I use it as a safety step and a bit of a roll call for when we're loading in. In combat, too, it's another redundant reminder if a DD is taking damage as the ranged ones usually aren't in my field of vision. It's especially useful to me in T7. When I see the icon next to the OT disappear (as I hawkishly watch the lifebars) I know s/he picked up the adds.

So safety, fight mechanics redundancy, roll call, and when Thrill of Battle is popped it's a nice extra emergency measure. As a WHM when most of anything you do is reactive, it's nice to have something that can help prepare you and to monitor your party members.

As much as an AoE version would be nice, I think that might traipse on SCH's unique abilities a bit too much. Unless future and higher level content would be made in such a way that damage is unpredictable or you need to hit the emergency OH CHEESE button I just don't see a need for the old "Divine Prism+Stoneskin" before King pops up, heh.

[LStarbreeze]

I honestly feel its the opposite effect in terms of casting for me. I prefer it being on everyone BUT the tank. the tank will lose it within 5 seconds. But having it on your group can mitigate damage or even prevent one shot, if they're super duper squishy...lol but I like using it as a personal heads up. once stoneskin is gone, just to be more aware of everyone's hp bars. So if im solo healing I can shift from single healing the tank to keeping everyone's hp up.

I would like it to be an AoE Cast though, would make it less of a chore to cast

That sounds like a terrible idea. WHM gets a 18% HP mitigation AoE, while SCH only has Succor and Sacred Soil, which all together probably mitigate 15% damage and Sacred Soil has a cooldown. :/

[melflomil]

10000 Hp tank adds 1800 to there Hp basically. My Scholar crits aldos for about 1700 which puts a shield up for 3400 but stoneskin is reliable because it is always guarantees that 1800.

[Alistaire]

So if a whm stoneskin is 18% shield of max hp..
Then what is an 18% shield on a healer with 6.7k hp?
Makes mountain busters into mountain punches.

Makes the first mountain buster into a mountain punch. The MP cost makes it inefficient in most fights to spam it during, barring fights with healing magic penalties like Ramuh Ex etc.

[Yumi_umi]

Makes the first mountain buster into a mountain punch. The MP cost makes it inefficient in most fights to spam it during, barring fights with healing magic penalties like Ramuh Ex etc.

Loool in ramuh ex i can solo orb clean up during adds and other phases as i literally take little to no damage. I just pop stoneskin or swiftcast stoneskin on myself before the thunderstrikes and bam, i get like 1k damage at the most.
If i ever drop low like realllllly low i can always just use benediction, but that won't really happen as his thunder aoes do little damage if there r no orbs laying around.
You don't spam it, you utilize it.
Cast it every cycle of attacks or when urs takes too much damage to warrant a decent shielding of the next attack (refreshing it).
So don't even try to say anything about ramuh ex till u try stuff like tht lol. Also i am not gimping healing in a fight with such easy healing with all these obergeared hunt/ coil players.

[Yumi_umi]

Also only bad players save swiftcasts "only" for raises.
With such a short CD, you should be using it for quick stoneskins or medica 2s, cure 3s, medicas too.