Quote Originally Posted by Avih View Post
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That is a really interesting insight, thank you. I was worried that it would be otherwise because the changes for SCH seem to be over the board and just horrible.

I am posting in a lot of thread right now and I have to agree with most of you. Even if some people say SCH might be good or even "perfect", more people complain and feel bad. There is always a way to make SCH feel good for both player kinds.
SCH was in FFXIV always a hybrid-pet healer and now SCH is nothing. Maybe shield healer.

Today my brother(SCH main and we play since SB) wanted to test SCH in DGs, raids etc. After one Alliance Raid and DG he wanted to stop it, it felt horrible and clunky. After that he just tested AST and WHM and SCH just got the worst out of the 3.
SCH feels unfinished and clunky all the time, even the fairy disappeared and he didn't even notice it. But what he said was that he didn't even need her at all. Using the pet skills on your hotbar feels not like having a pet anymore. Not seeing the fairy on the party frame is unnecessary and annoying. The pet feeling is comepletly gone. The half naked hotbar looks terrible and not being able to cast Embrace is clunky and annoying.

AoW. This skill is a meme for him, it feels bad, is boring and not engaging. The visual is just ew.

Not having Miasma and Energy Drain is just horrible. He loves those skills(me as a SMN can just say yes, these skills are a core identity point for SCH) and misses them. Not having Bane feels clunky, Shadowflare is missed and the worse is not being able to use Aetherflow out of combat. How could they even do that? Do they want SCHs to quit?

When I read that people leave the DG in the middle because they can't stand it anymore, that is just not a state a job should be in. I played WoW BFA and the beginning felt like a beta. This SCH is just the same. It's even a closed Alpha. SCH looks and feels unfinished. They just HAVE TO reverse the prunes and changes A LOT.

And @Avih again, even though you say we Westerners need to be louder and make more threads and JPN side has it more difficult, I think the JPN side still needs to protest and complain as well. Only if both sides are complaining and unsatisfied we are able to get attention and succeed.

No SCH wants to be "buffed to the top" btw, people should stop saying it. SCHs want to be SCHs again and not this middle-in-development-job.