Quote Originally Posted by Erakir View Post
Eh? Doing less when playing optimally?
Are the 99% combined healer damage numbers suddenly sub-optimal play?
Miasma 2's cost definitely gets less and less of an issue with refresh and double refresh - no other healer gets to take advantage of extra MP at all DPSwise like SCH gets to when it comes to damage.


I'd also argue that what you say about Indom is precisely why it's so powerful. Mmmm I can certainly agree that other abilities have less opportunity cost (Aetherflow and all) and can be used for wonderful effects, but it's simply its availability and versatility that shoot it up there. It's a very powerful tool that - I mean, I can kinda call it "icing on the cake" given everything the fairy does.

The fact that it's such a generally powerful ability and is used infrequently at top levels of play simply gives more credence to what you say with the fairy. SCH is as strong as it is without constant Indom, yet if they need it it's still there
I, myself, am an example of '99% combined healer' play. I have 99% combined healer runs on all alphascape turns, and am #2 for SCH+WHM on O12S.
And I consider our play suboptimal (bolded the question). Still, it's not untrue for me to say that my WHM does almost 33% more DPS than I do, because all of my aetherflow is going to healing rather than Energy Drain.
Regarding Double Refresh, the devs have already talked about how they balance everything for 2x Melee, 1x ranged, and 1x caster. Given the developers' standard, I think this is out of discussion for balance. (Otherwise, we'd be talking about how OP Noct AST is and how it can solo heal every last bit of content in the game much easier than the other healers, including Ultimates.)
Scholar's GCDs are weaker than WHM's GCDs, so Scholar is the first player to heal in optimal play between the two classes. The dynamic changes in SCH+AST because AST's GCDs are weaker, but AST has more tools to prevent healers from having to spend GCDs at all compared to WHM, so the personal DPS of scholar ends up looking more "on par" with AST.

Calling scholar's indomitability "icing on the cake," is more like "really nice icing on a really MP inefficient cake."
The reason they have tools like Whispering Dawn and Indomitability is precisely because of how awful it is to cast Succor. It costs more than 1/8 of the MP bar after reaching better gear (low piety builds for higher DPS.) For an example, compare it to Cure III, who costs only 240 more MP and is 550 potency, versus Succor at 375 potency. The difference is massive.
Perhaps if they had a normal MP-efficient AoE heal like 'Helios,' or 'Medica,' then I would consider the idea of removing or nerfing indomitability, but as it stands, scholar suffers too harshly without it in the AoE healing category.