Is Selene all that?

[SovereignAegis]

No she isn't, does she help? Yes.

But is it earth shattering? Oh hell no. I have tried it against Astrologian rigorously and AST buffs are significantly more helpful.

IE: Reduce TP cost on an AOE fight.
IE: Reduce mana cost on a blackmage.
*These two above add A LOT more than just 5% damage buff or 3% faster abilities that Selene does. Allowing an AoE like MCH or DRG to spam their highest TP cost abilities dramatically increases their damage output by even quadruple cause they get so many more abilities off.
IE: The balanced the entire team, is more noticeable than Selene's buff. Or put it on highest current DPS and that I feel is more noticeable. Selene's buff is ignorable on yourself as a healer in any challenging light-party situation and so "party wide" is overrated.
This will only be more pronounced and obvious when astrologian gets the buffs that were proposed in the live letter yesterday.

I am so sick of people saying Scholar is a DPS-healer because of Selene alone. She adds a MARGINAL buff for half the time. It is marginal and far from what everyone is blowing her out to be. I strongly prefer EOS simply for her HoT which allows me to spam 170 potency broil more.



WHM/AST incoming: "But SCH does more dps"
WHM Stone 3: 210 potency
AST: Whatever it is called: 200 potency.
Scholar broil: 170 potency.

"But your Do-"
WHM Aero, and holy which also stuns. I ain't got that.
AST multiple DoTs, Gravity (which doesn't stun mindyou)

I am so sick of the lack of self-awareness of these people. Learn your class, it helps.