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.