SCH is trash in its current state

[Octavian]

Want to echo a lot of the issues raised in this and other threads: I really do feel like SCH would be MUCH improved with ED returner and allowing aetherflow outside of combat. It’s so awkward when a tank pulls a big mob in a dungeon and you can’t use aetherflow yet to put excog on the tank because the mobs haven’t noticed you yet....

[Brandedblade]

I fail to see what the issue is. I've been playing it all day today, and it plays very well to me. It still has the general flow of high dps uptime and weaving ogcd heals. Even with dungeon pulls as long as you ride the lucid dreaming and aetherflow cds your mp sustains itself well enough.

[Sebazy]

I fail to see what the issue is. I've been playing it all day today, and it plays very well to me. It still has the general flow of high dps uptime and weaving ogcd heals. Even with dungeon pulls as long as you ride the lucid dreaming and aetherflow cds your mp sustains itself well enough.

Honestly, can you seriously not see the problem with not having Aetherflow charges on large pulls in dungeons? If the SCH doesn't start tagging mobs with dots to get themselves in combat asap, they have no oGCD heal incase the tank needs a top up mid pull. This was noticed big time by our tanks last night.

This makes the method of throwing a barrier on the tank as the previous pack dies and then using the run as time to regenerate MP out of combat somewhat iffy, significantly more so if you happened to end the last pull without any Aetherflow.

[loreleidiangelo]

Honestly, can you seriously not see the problem with not having Aetherflow charges on large pulls in dungeons? If the SCH doesn't start tagging mobs with dots to get themselves in combat asap, they have no oGCD heal incase the tank needs a top up mid pull. This was noticed big time by our tanks last night.

This makes the method of throwing a barrier on the tank as the previous pack dies and then using the run as time to regenerate MP out of combat somewhat iffy, significantly more so if you happened to end the last pull without any Aetherflow.

I'm cool with SCH not being rebuffed to god-tier status, but this I agree needs patching ASAP. I'd argue about AST cards not giving seals too but a few people have pointed out that they can stack multiple buffs now so that might be too strong, idk.

Mind you, I've always supported lilies bring generated outside of combat too so there's that. It too has never struck me as a resource so powerful it needs to be artificially limited in some way.

[Khemi]

SCH in its current state is mostly boring.

I'm not having any trouble healing dungeons - in fact, a DRK wall-to-wall pulling in the level 73 dungeon is the most fun I've had doing dungeons this expansion. I was sneaking in DPS where I could and using my aetherflow and fairy actions as much as possible keeping this tank up. It still wasn't that hard to do.

Otherwise... I'm sat there doing nothing with my aetherflow. I throw Chain Strat on something and then spam Art of War over and over until I'm out of mana, even with Lucid.

And this is only going to get worse as we outgear the content.

Yes, it might be great in savage, I don't know that. But leveling content is just as important to have fun in, and this is not fun.