[Dev Question] AST/SCH Full Party Heal Pairing Has no MND buff? Intended?

[Miste]

So...found out that both AST and SCH give PIE (Piety, MP increase) as their full party buff...

Well this kinda makes AST pairing with SCH not as beneficial. Even though I am pretty sure AST was made to be able to mix with either of the other healers like having the two Sects to cover two different healing styles.

By 60 the full party buff will likely give like 30 more of the stat, that is a lot of MND to lose especially when raiding...so I was wondering if this was intended?

A suggestion I could make to fix this issue would be for the healer full party buff maybe you could make it so as long as you have two different job healers that you automatically get the MND and PIE buff. So that you can pair any two different job healers together SCH/WHM, SCH/AST, or WHM/AST without losing the MND boost...since it is every healer job's main stat...

[RazeLandale]

It's kinda a silly system in the first place. Honestly, they should just drop it entirely and adjust base numbers accordingly. I don't think most people even know it's there.

[Miste]

It's kinda a silly system in the first place. Honestly, they should just drop it entirely and adjust base numbers accordingly. I don't think most people even know it's there.

True, that also would be fine.

I don't really play SCH but I find it lame they get shafted because they don't have maximum potential with the new healer. So even though there is a new healer the best pairings is still SCH/WHM or AST/WHM. This also locks AST in Nocturnal Sect stance and makes Diurnal Sect well...pointless except for say negligible difficulty content and solo.

[Vlady]

Well also scholar gets int bonus buffs in the base class over a more healer oriented stat. Just a few oversights which while can be inconvenient is not necessarily game breaking to really working about fixing until a few other issues are dealt with in the game.