Emergency Tactics is great, but...

[Dregenfox]

So the recent buff to ET cooldown has been great for scholars, giving us the ability to output raw healing when appropriate. The biggest issue I have with it right now is that it's costing SCH far too much in terms of time.

ET pretty much adds .5-.75s of animation delay to every single succor/adlo, and it really adds up. To add on top of that SCH has only 1 "free" oGCD action in Bio.

This means pretty much every emergency tactics is a ~30% nerf in terms of HPS/DPS when using it to succor an aoe. You actually want to use it as little as possible, because that time you spend prepping an ET could have been used to sneak in another broil.

I think ET needs some sort of effect added to it to make it worth using. As it is now there's no point in ever using ET unless you know for sure there's not going to be any incoming damage for the shield to mitigate.


Adding some sort of guaranteed effect like "increases the potency of the next heal by 20%" would pretty much solve the DPS/HPS issues scholar has in current savage content, IMO, as well as giving a reason to use it every 20s.