Have we given up on SCH?

[Hatstand]

Scholar and healers in general need to have their secondary identity expanded on.

WHM needs to weave damage and healing better and have more abilities that combine both aspects. WHM is the damager of the three. No utility but enormous personal dps.

SCH should be the debuffing/enfeebling healer. Tactically use aetherflow to inflict potent debuffs to reduce damage done or increase damage taken. Then use the subsequent Fairy gauge generated to use the oCDs.

AST needs new ways to manipulate its buffs. Extend, spread or increase their potency.

Essentially, since healing/dps identities seem to be homogenized the devs should expand on the secondary support aspects of each job.

I agree that it’d be nice to get more variety in the support aspects... when you spend more than half of a fight using offensive skills, you need more variety in those offensive skills. No matter how interesting you make SCH’s mitigation it won’t change the fact that broil will be cast more than any other spell unless you make serious changes elsewhere.

Unless SE redesigns all the encounters in the game from the ground up to actually require us to heal/mitigate a good 70% of the time even when we’re overheated and familiar with the fight a good chunk of how a healer feels to play will come from how their dps feels. And right now healers feel bad to play.