Quote Originally Posted by Sakei View Post
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That's the point of shields...? They're there as a buffer. That's legitimately what they're there for, to take one or two hits at maximum and nothing else. That doesn't change the fact that an AST's has higher potency shields for far less of a cost, nor that their single shield is an instant cast where as SCH's takes two seconds to proc at almost 1.8k cost. In an expansion where damage mitigation is so essential THIS IS HUGE as you can legitimately turn a devastating tank buster into a normal hit, except AST's don't even have to learn the rotation of the fight to learn when best to proc theirs. If you see the cast bar as a SCH you've already lost your chance to put out an Adlo, where as AST's can literally throw out something twice as good INSTANTLY. It also doesn't help that AST shields and SCH overwrite one another, so SCH legitimately have to sit and do nothing but DPS and the occasional lustrate if the AST in their party refuses to switch out of Noct. That is overpowered.