What changes will push sch out of meta

[BokoToloko]

SCh strenght is the powerful damage mitigation, since you can heal pre-emptively and most of the healing potency will always be used while WHM and AST in Diurnal Sect must wait until HP is low enough to avoid overhealing. Shielding healers tend to be the most effective type of healer in MMORPG.

That said, if a healer falls out of the meta is purely because its performance is subpar in everything, as it happens with any other roles (looking at you, early Heavensward PLD). WHMs have a raw healing potency that SCHs don't posess. ASTs have the flexibility and a more powerful (although RNG bound) buff that SCHs don't have. And each class performs well in all enviroments. Also you can only have one SCH per group, so it's hard if not impossible for the SCH to overshadow other healers in the meta.

At last, the mindset should be about making the useless jobs not useless, not having the other classes become also useless.

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Problem is that a DoT and an Attack Spell can't make up for the damage boost Cleric Stance provide since damage still scales out of INT, not MND.

[ADVSS]

what about a bubble that stacks with shields?

If they introduce a healer that is good at DPs and adding healing buffs that will affect your healing partner.

Like he will have low heal potency in general but put healing buffs on the party in order to heal, and his partner also benefits from these buffs.
This will make people take AST in Nocturnal Sect and this new healer.

So he will be the type to try and reduced damage + low healing potency + no shields but rather he buffs the party to receive more heal potency that affect his partners heals as well.

He can have abilities like:

- Increase healing potency by -- for -- seconds.
- Increase healing received by --%.
- Increase HP and fill it by --% for -- seconds.

He could use a combo healing system.

You get the idea.. I did not give it much thought yet but the idea is there.

give an edge to stoneskin though in all honesty it might be put in the cross role skill list....unless they just make it a whm only thing

[Feyona]

SCh strenght is the powerful damage mitigation, since you can heal pre-emptively and most of the healing potency will always be used while WHM and AST in Diurnal Sect must wait until HP is low enough to avoid overhealing. Shielding healers tend to be the most effective type of healer in MMO
At last, the mindset should be about making the useless jobs not useless, not having the other classes become also useless.



Problem is that a DoT and an Attack Spell can't make up for the damage boost Cleric Stance provide since damage still scales out of INT, not MND.

well was thinking more of balance really and sch has far too many spells But on the whole I agree my stance was simplification for optimal play