Just feels like bad design

[Eloah]

The AST thing is baffling. I mean it took two expansions for them to get an AoE pre 50, so hopefully they fix the Sect issue in 6.0. It initially looked like they didn't want to shuffle skills around too much, but with how they did a mass shuffle in Shadowbringers hopefully that means they can make more sense of skills that once had a reason to be where they were, like Diurnal Sect, but now are just there for the Lulz.

The SCH situation makes some sense, since they were trying to "separate" the two jobs moreso, but it has it's own issues now. Dont get me wrong some of the changes were good/nice. SMN doesn't need Aetherflow like SCH does, merging it with Energy Drain and adding Energy Siphon was a good move. Along with moving Fester to a lower level. Since many people said level 50 SMN was just Arcanist with Fester. Well now ACN has Fester, lol. But at the same time removing Energy Drain from SCH was dumb. It would of been okay had you replaced it with another stack spender, but that was just bad planning.

The Egi Assaults were a good move too, as it finally made each summon viable for it's own purpose, instead of just pick the one you want. I will say though it is annoying on SCH that I dont have Whispering Dawn prior to level 20 unlike before. I have no AoE on SCH pre 20 now. I know low level healing is meh, but sometimes my party is just that... uh... "danger prone" lol

I feel they need to make more skills that appear similar for both jobs, but function towards each ones specialty, like Aetherpact and Summon Bahamut/Seraph. Plus some skills thematically suit the other job better than the one they are on. The poisons fit SCH better. And while Dissipation is "better" than what it was, it would make more sense for SMN.

Maybe I can organize a list yo keep myself busy. Got nothing but down time anyway, lol