The Unofficial "Why is this still a thing" Thread

[Miste]

i am not too sure if it was a good reason... SCH and AST would still had the physical protect and on top of that super virus, disable, fey covenant, sacred soil and collective unconscious (the bubbles do stack, don't they?). enough tools to cover the lack in magic defense for those raid busters...

Not denying those were all great abilities, but we no longer have some of those and even if we did some fights have a high amount of magic AoE raid damage.

Have you been in O6S or O8S? The amount of AoE magic damage going out is high so the tools right now wouldn't cover it all.

You also have to take into account SCH using all their stacks on Sacred Soil means they can't use it on Lustrate/Excog/Indom/Energy Drain. So yeah they can pop a Sacred Soil every 30s to try to make up for the fact they don't have Proshell, but they are losing other tools and/or MP/DPS.

Collective Unconscious has a 90s cooldown not nearly short enough to handle all the AoE damage in some of the savage turns. It also has a server tick issue to proc the mitigation/regen which can cause ASTs to loose up to 3 GCDs trying to proc it. So it is a clunky ability and has downsides of being forced to channel it and unable to cast or move and also losing GCDs for other healing and/or DPS.

Also none of these tools are a cast it and forget it type thing like Protect is (minus death and having to recast once in awhile). So other healers would have to use more resources and waste healing and DPS uptime to mitigate.

If AST and SCH no longer had Proshell (which we have right now) then likely any comp without a WHM would be at a pretty big disadvantage since the group as a whole would take a lot more overall AoE damage throughout the fight.

They could just make Protect a spell every healer gets instead of it taking up a role skill slot tho....but then again Esuna really needs that too.