Quote Originally Posted by Risvertasashi View Post
It's worth noting that a frequently-overlooked SCH CD lets them use anything without consuming aetherflow and guarantees crits. Sort of the SCH version of thin air.

N.AST has issues, but they run much deeper than MP - to make it competitive with SCH, we need to be talking about completely different things. AST as a whole... well, let me put it like this. As of the 5.1 buffs, AST is already topping the damage charts ahead of every other healer, and every tank. And buffing AST's MP (along with faster casts, etc) in stormblood is what sent the healer balance from the relatively balanced 'SCH+AST for farm, but WHM for prog' to the completely out of control 'SCH+AST for everything', so I'm a bit wary about this.

500 MP would be more reasonable, but I think it would be better still if the ability was on something not in the healer role.
I wasn't entirely aware of how much MP had an impact on healers in Stormblood given how I was still getting better and understanding the different jobs. If we really had to throw in something that's not MP, then we need to make sure that we don't wind up with Balance Syndrome. If anything, we could make Celestial be a minor Haste buff...though the problem that comes with that then disjoints a lot of openers. It's really hard to think of something that could benefit for Celestial, because AST does not need more healing, nor can they be given an MP Boost...on top of that making it 2% increase raid-wide for all party members just makes people fish more for that card since it's more beneficial; though honestly, they can still get a good benefit off of just RRing the Lunar/Solar Seals as well. Doing it that way may work for the time being perhaps.

Also, Recitation is dumb, yes. At the least, they could put a little more pressure on SCH's resources and just make it guarantee a critical while costing resources to make it more competitive so that SCHs have to make better decisions instead of Recitation Excog/Indom(which when those can guarantee Crits it makes SCH look strong on the healing front).