Was the new sch even play tested?

[Unease_Lemming]

I just started leveling SCH today and have a big gripe the moment I ran my first dungeon: The fairy is now basically an "always-on" pre-pull regen that I can't turn off.

Tank pulls, takes a sliver of damage, immediate Embrace causes all non-tagged enemies to immediately come smack me, making the pull more annoying for the tank and taking half my HP.

Unless I'm missing something, short of hoping an Adlo pre-pull is big enough until everything is picked up or unsummoning, there's nothing I can do to prevent this.

[Brightamethyst]

They really just need to make regens not generate enmity. Half the time adds spawn and go straight for the healer even if they haven't done anything, just because a regen is ticking on someone.

[Doriann]

They really just need to make regens not generate enmity. Half the time adds spawn and go straight for the healer even if they haven't done anything, just because a regen is ticking on someone.

impossible due to regen + medica 2 stacking, aspected benefic and helios.

[Loki]

SInce shadowbringers i noticed my fairy was stressed she casts non stop and her cures sux....

[AureliaF]

Nice post OP, I agree totally. I was waiting to see how the combat played out with SCH and healers in general before making a decision on purchasing the expansion, and I'm glad I waited. I'll keep an eye on changes in upcoming patches and possibly change my mind in the future, but for now, I'm cancelling my sub. There's other games out there with a much more engaging playstyle for support classes than 5.0 SCH, which I hate saying, because I enjoyed pre-Shb healing in FF14. And I've heard that the Shb MSQ is incredible, so I hate to miss that! And I wish everyone fun times that are enjoying the changes but for me, I'll vote with my wallet and maybe it'll help. Here's hoping for some swift changes to the healer experience going forward!

[Ruzha]

honestly, i dont know why they put fairy action on the main keybinds anyway. They wanted to reduce skillbloat but decided to remove some good stuff and just have the fairy abilities on the hotbar? I understand with SMN. and but it just seems trashy with SCH. because you could put the fairy stuff on the hotbar anyway?

why did they get rid of some healer dps buttons anyway? it doesn't matter if players of lower skill to have them on their hotbar or not? it just punishes people who like busywork/complexity.

[Enla]

honestly, i dont know why they put fairy action on the main keybinds anyway. They wanted to reduce skillbloat but decided to remove some good stuff and just have the fairy abilities on the hotbar? I understand with SMN. and but it just seems trashy with SCH. because you could put the fairy stuff on the hotbar anyway?

why did they get rid of some healer dps buttons anyway? it doesn't matter if players of lower skill to have them on their hotbar or not? it just punishes people who like busywork/complexity.

This is something I don't get as well. I assume they're under the impression that being a Healer is hard so they thought to reduce the complexity of the jobs, but healing has never been hard in any capacity? I felt that healers while unbalanced in SB had a nice medium between being easy to pick up but rewarding to master. A lower skill player who never touched Savage would be okay mostly healing with the occasional DPS spell, where as those who tried to master more could /excel/ and fell very satisfied with their work - at least with AST and SCH. I don't know why they got this idea in their head that healers needed to be simplified especially when most WHM players I've met pre-ShB were wanting more complexity themselves and for the class to be buffed to stand toe to toe with the other two.

Now instead of having three fairly accessible but difficult to fully master classes we have three brain dead, homogenized classes. I healed all the way up to the end of the game today and I've just been /bored/. The only time I feel any panic is due to the MP situation SCH is currently facing - and you know how I mitigate that? I stop casting for 10 seconds to get my MP back if Lucid and Aether are on cooldown. So I now have even more downtime that I did previously. It's just not a good look for healers right now...

[NobleWinter]

Art of War is incredibly expensive to cast but it wouldn't be so bad if we had another AoE dot like Miasma II. Call it something like: "War of Attrition" or "Forced Surrender" and make it cost 400 mp with a six second duration so we swap back and forth with Art of War for more engaging game play and easier mp management. It doesn't even need to be a separate button. Just make Art of War change into War of Attrition after each use for a single button combo via trait for the brain dead. Art of War spam as it is now just feels horrible.

[Alisi]

I'm only 77. I don't really want to speak on the healing. Thus far, I'm adequate enough to keep parties alive. I'm using SCH on my way through the MSQ and it's SO boring. It's basically a one button class. ;=; It's like broil-broil-broil with a bio every 30 seconds. I feel like a bad sch of days gone by. I find myself bored in dungeons too, where the party is basically decent players. I hope this gets better.

[Videra]

Why can't I hold all this overhealing?