SCH concern on DPS. Healers dps comparison

[Sighearth]

From the new skill we are getting in SB, nothing its game changing or anything like that ( not that it needs to be) we are just getting more toys to play with. But what is changing the gameplay entirely is those huge dps nerfs and CS changing. I don't know if I'm the only one but as our level get higher, we should be feeling more powerful? maybe capable of doing more? I'm feeling we are getting weaker in SB. I think SCH have a unique set of skill and ways of contributing to the pt on their own not only healing. WHM and AST can cover the healing aspect way better. I have the fear that maybe we will be seen as " Oh here it comes the 20% crit " and "Its a shame AST doesn't have crit cards or else we could bring 2 ASTs to the raid!"

[LegoTechnic]

And sorry but this cross class skill thing sounded interesting but looks to be pointless. Of the ten skills, why would I choose anything other than cleric, esuna, protect, swiftcast and eye for eye in dungeons? What in the new content could possibly incentivize me to think that the other skills would be attractive alternatives? Break is meh, I don't need an enmity reduction, i have a healing buff via eos and rescue is highly situational. Maybe they come into play when doing 8 man content and working with a second healer if the fight has specific situations. They gutted white mage for this?

You're going to want Lucid Dreaming due to both the aetherize reduction and the increased costs of all SCH spells. Honestly Cleric Stance as it is now will be pretty trash, as it's only a 5% buff for 15 seconds with a 90 second cooldown.

[Amenako]

im kind of sad that SCH and the fairy took a hit for SB. Like this really makes me mad. I dunno who thinks SCH is op but i don't think it is, SCH was actually in my opinion the only healer class that was really balanced and had its role clearly defined when it came out. Now with the unnecessary Astro buff its like what is the point of having an SCH anymore?

[Amenako]

Nerfing eos is stupid because SCH already have lower heals then the other which we needed eos to make up for it, so lowering that heal from eos is clearly screwing with SCH's a bit. The new tether healing i feel is good and bad, its cool that now you can make eos focus heal a tank since i know thats what most SCH would have liked to have the ability to make eos focus healing someone when needed but i dislike the fact that eos or selene lose all their abilities during that time, yes you can turn it off but its like whats the point of doing that? it would have been better if during the tether duration a SCH has to manually use eos skills except for embrace but thats not the casue. i feel like this in a raid scene wouldnt be so viable because you have to healers and if both healers can't get the tank topped off before anything else happens clearly something went wrong.

[Amenako]

they should have given sch's one more atherflow stack, since its already hard for SCH's to regain mana during raid fights if they don't manage it properly. i see how a lot of people say SCH have almost an unlimited mana pool or have a good way of recovering mana, but they don't, we have to share our stacks with indom, lustrate, soil and energy drain. i as a SCH usually never use energy drain unless i know i can afford it in a fight, usually i will save it for indom, or lustrate..

[Averax]

You know, it suddenly occurred to me that bane is an ability that merely spreads dots and reduces the damage based on each target it is spread to.

SCH only has two dots in SB that last a decently long time

You can just cast Bio and Miasma on two/three targets for full damage and maintain them rather easily.

And though i havn't seen the raw numbers, i think bio on a bunch of the other targets might offer more damage on 5+ targets, along with your miasma on two/three targets.

[Sylvain]

I actually hope these changes hint at a higher healing requirement.
I agree with people saying that little damage > zero damage tho