Quote Originally Posted by Verdan View Post
The reason supervirus isn't on the table like protshell is comes from that it's an arcanist skill, not a scholar one. Summoners are still able to provide it, even without a scholar around, making balancing healing easier because losing scholar doesn't mean it's gone. If you wanna nuts and bolts try and compare White Mage and Scholar(and holy shit do you guys love to), sure it's something the scholar has over the white mage. However, as far as raid makeup goes it's not a thing where losing scholar means losing supervirus, which is the whole reason behind the protshell changes.
Certainly true that SMN has it, but it'd mean a no SCH comp is semi-forced to use SMN in a T13 type scenario even - if - SMN is otherwise inefficient or ineffective. I'm not saying that it is, in fact I think SMN is going to be head and shoulders above its commonly viewed perception in ARR, but it'd be kind of lousy forcefully locking in a DPS spot just for Supervirus. I know that's not why I feel SCH should be locked in, it's just one part of it for me.