Another SCH complain

[LegoTechnic]

As a main scholar I am indeed a little sad about our aoe dps nerf and the loss of virus but honestly, there's nothing to complain about it.
We still are really powerful and the new skill are really great.

I think what gets under my skin the most is how homogenized we've become. I remember starting out in ARR with WHM and SCH having distinct natures and styles; hell, SCH was DPS for 30 levels at the start. They were both healers but they had largely separate toolkits. Even in HW this remained true despite a design focus to bring them closer together, and while we got the big AoE heals we were lacking they were gated behind timers and stack mechanics that kept the spirit of the class design. Reliable opportunity heals that can't be spammed. SB's new abilities continue that trend but add in a party synergy buff.

But whatever unique spirit was inherit in the DPS mechanics is gone. Originally ARC was a DoT class with DoTs dealing a considerable portion of their damage with direct damage as filler. Coming off that root, SCHs were the same, and this gave us a Warlock vs Mage style differentiation in playstyle where SCHs kept their many DoT focus and mages had their presence of mind buffable stone attacks, SCH sustained damage vs WHM's burst, but that's gone now. DPS as any of the three healers is now almost completely the same with no individuality to speak of outside of AoE, where Bane's spreading dots occupies a neat discrepancy against Holy/Gravity spam with the heavy cost of being safer in that it doesn't tie you up as a healer, but effectively just nowhere near as good.