Lustrate nerf

[Tsunenori]

Is it weird if I'm actually really looking forward to this? Yes it affects our playstyle and some Scholars will need to unlearn bad habits but I feel like the benefits far outweigh the negatives.

[Mirakumi]

I was worried when I saw Lustrate Nerf, but you have teased me.

I see no problems here. Just extra stance dancing which is no problem.

Us Schs are known for our dancing skills.

[UOdhn]

Lustrate affected by crit? I could get used to this! It may be a "nerf", but it's a nerf I was looking forward to.

[Cynfael]

Yeah, I'm not particularly sad about this change. Not being able to use it to ignore effects like Infirmity and Overcharged is the biggest loss, of course, but I'm happy with it for stance dancing and for general purposes.

- Huge potency for an instant heal on non-tanks
- Still quite powerful for tank healing, especially with buffs/CDs
- As Tranquil says, while you won't be able to effectively use Lustrate to avoid popping out of Cleric Stance entirely, it doesn't stop skilled stance-dancing at all. In fact, if you're already in the habit of spending most of your stacks on Energy Drain rather than Lustrate, you probably won't notice much of a difference.

[Teno]

It's a buff, it was much more optimal to keep a stack of aetherflow for energy drain instead of lustrate and actually cast a healing spell by switching CS off. In short it used to be : energy drain + healing spell (by CS dancing) > Lustrate + dmg spell. It's a welcomed buff to better heal dps, who were the primary targets of lustrate.

[giantslayer]

It always felt like a waste to use Lustrate on DPS. I am glad that it will be more effective for healing non-tanks. I can deal with cleric stance (plus my faerie can still heal).

[TonberiScholar]

It always felt like a waste to use Lustrate on DPS. I am glad that it will be more effective for healing non-tanks. I can deal with cleric stance (plus my faerie can still heal).

Healing DPS with anything other than an AoE heal feels like a waste, to be honest.

There are so many of them and they move around so much, except when they're supposed to! (to dodge things).

[CGMidlander]

Being able to ignore certain mechanics/abilities sure was sweet. (e.g. Infirmity from Death Sentence, Overcharge...etc.)
Oh well.

[Vlady]

Lustrate needs a cooldown as scholars are already insanely strong as can be right now. Maybe a 3-5 second cooldown. Itleast white mages are sort of catching up to scholars in Heavensward. Its an overall good change but there will still be big issues with astrologian and scholars dominating all content. Regen needs to be reworked to be able to provide some sort of burst healing when the game is centered around spurts of burst healing. Maybe Alexander will change that with more fights like odin and king behemoth using constantly damaging raid attacks.

[Wizarus]

Whether it is a nerf or not depends on your playstyle. I already immediately go out of Cleric Stance when I'm about to heal, so it doesn't affect me much at all.