Quote Originally Posted by inhaledcorn View Post
Right now, SCH feels really disjoined in its entire kit, with parts of its kit fighting against each other.
Ha ha yea!

On top of that, SCH's healing potential is really bad right now.
Oh it's gonna be one of those threads. Quotes shortened due to Character limit

Indomitability is SCH's main form of AoE healing
Its 2nd worst AoE heal, actually. Soil and Whispering Dawn are better - Both have more potency and Dawn doesn't cost an Energy Drain.

Dissipation is garbage
It's 3 free Energy Drains. If you use it smartly, costs you 10 or less embraces

Dissipation removes the fairy's free healing.
The strategist healer has a skill that is most effective when planned ahead...

Dissipation = NoAF Lustrate/Indom
That would make it the most busted healing skill in the game - akin to if Cure 3 generated Blood lilies. The resources are limited for a reason.

SCH relies on cooldowns instead of GCDs
That is every healer, my dude. Every healer prioritises their oGCDs since that means more Glare/Broil/Malefic.

Fey Union is just force-embrace
A focused embrace that can have up to 2800pot stored, generating 840pot/minute [i]for free[i/].

Fey Blessing bad
I agree that Blessing probably doesn't need a gauge cost, but it's still a bonus 250p heal - stronger than 1 Plenary burst or an uncharged Horoscope.

fairy rework
Honestly if you want to make the fairy heal more, go whole hog:
Gauge generates by AF, but also at-will at the cost of mana
Embrace is replaced with a cooldowned single-target heal (think fey physik)
At X gauge, all Fairy heals can be used without a cooldown

Return Eos to Stormblood (concurrent casting, instant reactions)
With that, Fey Skills completely replace SCH's GCDs but you actually have mana as a resource to manage.

Anyway that's too off-topic. Back to responses

Other ability changes: Excog
Lustrate and Excog don't compete with each other as Excog has a long CD - lustrate is akin to an emergency heal.
However, adding a small defense buff (max 5%) to Excog in its current state would work well to SCH's strategising aspect. You'd want Excog to stay active for as long as possible before it does heal.

Deployment Tactics
SCH already has an oGCD succor in the form of Consolation.
Deployment (in the lore) works by piggybacking off an existing spell - so having it restore broken Galvanises (akin to Plenary/Horoscope) in an area around the target would work. Or just let us deploy off of the fairy again

If SCH is being played as a more ability-focused Healer.
It is - it has been since Heavensward introducted Indom. All healers are playing like that though, ever since Gordias forced everyone's mindsets into ekeing out the most DPS.