Have we given up on SCH?

[Hatstand]

SCH is in no way in such a bad shape that it needs constant threads like AST right now. The reason you don't see threads made for it is because, just like WHM, our issues are more about the feel of the job or QoL. That really doesn't need more than 1 or 2 threads talking about it.

Energy Drain fixed most of the SCH complaints, the only thing I see left is Bane wanting to be brought back, which probably just won't happen since they'd have to do the same thing for WHM and AST.

I agree that AST is in desperate need of help, but... why would SCH getting bane back mean that WHM and AST would need to get the same? SCH’s old dps rotation was something I loved but it wasn’t for everyone. And for people like me for whom the joy of healing is about balancing offence and defence, variety in dps skills is as important (though not more important) as variety in heals. You could balance bane against the other healers. It only affects their aoe so nerf art of war and that’s that. And then, if the other healers want something more interesting to do with their dps they could have something different.

Also, while having bane back would be an improvement, it wouldn’t be a significant one unless we also got miasma back (spreading DoTs isn’t that great unless applying the DoTs is a significant investment in the first place). Ideally bio 1 as a seperate DoT as well, that way you have to actually consider whether it’s worth fully DoTting up an enemy and spreading it, or whether you should just put your strongest DoT on them manually, or just nuke spam.

And I’d like shadow flare back, too. Now that sacred soil is so much more potent it might actually be worth considering whether to sacred soil or shadow flare, assuming you have to choose between the two.

I’d like cleric stance back on all healers. I like the idea of buffing my own dps, and lining that up to benefit from it the most.

And I’d like Selene back as more than a skin.

I’d like all the skills back that we lost when we didn’t need to. We’re dpsing as much as we ever did. We gained no new dps skills from 71 to 80 so to keep the ratio we shouldn’t have lost any dps skills. That’s not button bloat, that’s parity.

Dpsing on all healers is boring now (to me, at least). That means that trying to balance offence and defence is only going to get you more time being bored. And yes, that’s awful for WHMs, too (or for some of them, anyway. I’ve always kind of suspected that a lot of people who liked WHM enjoyed its simple dps style. And that’s fine. Different tastes and all), and it’s horrible that SE has been ignoring WHM feedback for years, but there was no reason for them to do this to SCH. No reason for them to drag the one healer with an interesting set of dps skills down (in that aspect) to meet the others. (Or more realistically to meet WHM, since AST had interesting cards back then to make up for the lack of interesting dps).