SCH needs some nerfs

[Connor]

Isn’t the low healing requirements of the overall game a barrier to balancing healers properly? When healers are balanced around dealing damage most of the time, it makes sense that one that literally was a DPS would have the easiest time of it.

On the other hand, the standard ‘pure healer’ type jobs (White Mage) don’t seem to do so well. They can do high DPS, but I don’t think that’s the idea behind a White Mage lol, hence why it tends to feel less impactful than Scholar / Astrologian who are supposed to be more support oriented.

You can argue that this doesn’t apply to Astrologian since it’s meant to be a low DPS heal/buff oriented support type healer, but I think the changes to stuff like lightspeed / Malefic III make it DPS enough to be desirable.

I think the devs see healers as having this weird balance because White Mage is the ‘pure healer’ whilst Scholar and Astrologian are the ‘support healers’. Of course this isn’t true, but I genuinely don’t think they take a healer’s damage dealing capabilities into account when considering how ‘balanced’ they are