Quote Originally Posted by Reilyn View Post
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Still the matter of nocturnal sect shields > SCH shields that bothers me to no end. ...
I feel the same way, I was SCH main before HW, and then was AST main. (I wanted corsair card buffs but its a lot different)

I think this is largely steeped in what SE tried to do with the new three jobs. They were all meshes of older jobs. Machinist was a mirror to bard. DRK had a mix of pld and drk. AST could either do hots or shields(but not both at once) like whm and sch. However SE seem to have a hard time balancing them, because in their most basic of places, they all need to heal about the same, and offer other stuff. So SE gave AST better shields because sch offered fairy... but at the same time, they nerfed fairy and increased SCH mp costs on said shield spells. It looks like a kick in scholars face instead of balancing the healing output.

I haven't touched SCH yet in SB, I'm hoping SE can change that But I think much of the problem stems from how the 3 HW jobs were envisioned at launch.

I would have much prefered a new type of healing, more like earthly star or reactive heals, or special types of heals opening when drawing cards etc.