Quote Originally Posted by Aurum View Post
[...] even though we can shield almost as well as a scholar, we aren't given all the other healing capabilities a scholar has, aka the fairy and all the various aetherflow abilities, which is really what makes scholar viable.
SCH got Indomitability, which makes up for their lack of an AoE healing burst. It's 400 potency, but it has a 30s cooldown and it eats an Aetherflow stack. AST can make it up with a Swiftcast/Lightspeed Helios, which will heal the same as WHM's Assize. If you use Indomitabilty once, you lose the ability to cast one Lustrate, which is the only big reliable heal SCH has; AST has Benefic II all the time. Emergency Tactics has a 30s cd, and turns Adlo in a weaker heal than Benefic II unless it crits, which is RNG based. Fairies are nerfed, and the long cast time and positioning makes it less reliable than a big heal. The so-called SCH big healing things are all either RNG or cooldown based and are not always available.