Emergency Tactics animation and/or recast time is too long

[Cynfael]

Emergency Tactics is best used for cases where you know in advance that heavy damage will be incoming

Exactly. ET is for when you anticipate needing to restore a lot of actual HP very soon.

Heavy raid damage that you hadn't been counting on (like the failure of a mechanic) = Indomitability.

[Sabeta]

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Our single target healing has always been better than WHM. That hasn't changed, and probably won't.
The gap between our AoE healing has been narrowed considerably:
1) Whispering Dawn is still great and rivals Medica II.
2) Succor=Medica. Shields still don't stack, but ET is only on a 30s cooldown. I can't think of any fight that has significant amounts of AoE raid damage every 15 seconds. (Enough to require Medica Spam anyway)
3) Deployment Tactics is borderline OP, capable of negating hilarious amounts of damage altogether.
4) Indomitability is an instant AoE heal that's stronger than Medica, but weaker than Cure III
5) Our protect and Stoneskin are equal to yours now, negating one of the few advantages you could boast about in 2.0

I personally like WHM/SCH; if only for the LB and the MND boost. WHM isn't bad, but I believe groups looking to maximize DPS will more-than-likely consider SCH/SCH.

[Eul]

I just hit my SCH to 58 and the animation is really cool, but it didn't affect the delay of skill as OP give statement.

Also I much prefer WHM/SCH even SCH has Indomitability and ET.

[Shikiseki]

I actually use it whenever I need a "medica". It's also nice whenever indomitability is on CD and especially when a succor alone just isn't enough. While I mostly use it for succor, using it on Adloquium is a bit harder (those crit heals for 10.2k heals are no joke ) but depends on rng....

[Blessedbythesun]

SCH healing potential is already ludicrously high but the RNG of not just singular but double crits after using ET makes being a SCH the most enjoyable healing job I have ever played. I have seen 11-12k adlo's with ET on tanks. Those lucky enough for crit succor reaching upward 8-9k.