Deployment Tactics is Pretty Useless

[Brandedblade]

I was providing best case scenarios to show how Deployment Tactics, even in the best circumstances, is an underwhelming ability.

Spread Adlo? Stronger shield than Succor’s, but weaker overall. If Succor would overheal, then 9 times out of 10 you won’t need the shield.
Spread Succor? It’s insanely difficult to do, but then you get a whopping 225potency shield for a 120s cooldown.

Yeah, you can find usages if you’re playing safely and not caring about your DPS, but Scholar already has a vastly superior safety tool that requires no setup - Sacred Soil.

The point of shields are to reduce the damage the party takes, the raw healing aspect of it is a moot point in this scenario. It seems logical to me that one would deploy an adlo if they're more focused on mitigation over healing. I am aware of the value of Succor deploy from stormblood but with faerie deploys no longer possible it seems too niche to pull off effectively when you could just adlo deploy and be done with it.

And this discussion is not about sacred soil, I am aware of how powerful it is. I just fundamentally disagree that deployment tactics is a weak skill when it serves a slightly different functionality As far as the argument of dps goes. its going to be a given that unless you spare some aetherflow and swiftcast to slot a couple of energy drains into the Adlo -> Deploy. That the mere fact you're gcd healing is a dps loss. Yes we've established that.