Quote Originally Posted by GarnetTribal View Post
Quite frankly, the class should be split from smn. They can retain their dots, just give them new look and name -- or create a new dps rotation entirely for them. That way they're able to be balanced outside of smn.
This has already been done in 3.0 with the exclusion of class abilities via levelling. They tested something out with ACN, which didn't work as intended, but so many people have played and loved SCH for a long time now so you can't simply rework the entire job for the sake of it. They've rectified it, and moving forward SCH and SMN will only drift further apart.

I agree with the party buff thing, it's quite silly it wasn't anticipated and removed at the start of 3.0.