Quote Originally Posted by Erakir View Post
In theory? I wouldn't mind some sort of change for SCH to push it more towards AF abilities only being for healing/mitigation - but you'd also have to redo/remove Bane on top of ED to do that, and yeah it'd of course come with rethinking MP restoration and potential damage tuning. At the same time I don't particularly mind it, either, and I'd still come across ASTs who stop healing someone because they didn't stand in the first Earthly Star in a trial roulette. Having a way to dump AF charges in a meaningful way that you forgot to use is likely something I'd keep in the game, though there are more options than direct damage.
Ah, yes, I forgot about Bane. They could just make it independent from AF though and give it a longer cooldown. And the damage loss from not having Energy Drain would just make WHM and AST damage better in comparison. I guess you would need to remove Lord of Crowns from AST then as well... I personally wouldn't mind that though. As nice as it is to do more damage after getting an unwanted card, it's like with Energy Drain. Lady of Crowns just gets used on themselves at 100% HP to make space for Lord anyway. ;D
I would actually like it if they removed the damage from Assize and Earthly Star as well and put it somewhere else. I think because we already try to not cast any GCD heals, dpsing with oGCDs shouldn't come at the cost of losing healing oGCDs for it. I just seem to have seen too many healers trying to play like in parse runs in casual content with new players, but I digress...


On the plus side, every time you get a 'healer' like that you get to become better at solo healing and carrying DF parties through fights they had no right clearing~
But I'm having sooo bad luck with that. Really, EVERY time I get a full-dps co-healer it's in a party with multiple (new) players that don't know the mechanics (yet). Usually I'm lucky though and after like 3 wipes they finally start helping raising and healing a little. There's only so much I can do alone if people fail mechanics a lot.