SCH oddities

[Chrystal755]

My main gripe being it feels like the odd one out.

WHM is superb at healing

AST is good at healing and/or shields

SCH isn't superb at healing, isn't the best shield deployer in most cases, their shields feel weaker or on par to AST, they aren't very damage dealing, they don't have a lot of support abilities.

It feels like in endgame content, they are rendered mostly pointless as AST and WHM can give shields/reduce raid wide damage respectively with much less effort and resources while bringing a lot to the table.

[Eloah]

My main gripe being it feels like the odd one out.

WHM is superb at healing

AST is good at healing and/or shields

SCH isn't superb at healing, isn't the best shield deployer in most cases, their shields feel weaker or on par to AST, they aren't very damage dealing, they don't have a lot of support abilities.

It feels like in endgame content, they are rendered mostly pointless as AST and WHM can give shields/reduce raid wide damage respectively with much less effort and resources while bringing a lot to the table.

If it helps, don't think of AST as being better at shields compared to SCH. While it is true that AST has slightly higher shields compared to SCH, that's mostly to offset that SCH does have the faerie. And potency-wise the shield aren't that far off from one another. SCH's biggest strength and weakness is the faerie, because she acts like a turret. So SCH can heal from greater and safer distances. But the faerie, in her current form, doesn't account for certain things SCH lacks compared to the other healers, like a first tier AoE healing spell or a second tier single target one, and why can't Succor just be 200 potency already? There are so many little bits that need to be addressed. Hopefully SE sees that.

[Liam_Harper]

My main gripe being it feels like the odd one out.

WHM is superb at healing

AST is good at healing and/or shields

SCH isn't superb at healing, isn't the best shield deployer in most cases, their shields feel weaker or on par to AST, they aren't very damage dealing, they don't have a lot of support abilities.

I agree ScH is left behind, but I'd say all healers are good at healing, with AST being the one that's superb at it. WhM lacks shields and both ScH and WhM pay dps taxes to heal and have to turn to GcD's much sooner than AST.

The meta is AST+other healer and ScH's issue is it has inferior damage and doesn't bring extra healing to the table that AST can't cover or needs. In addition, WhM is straightforward and effective and ScH has a clunky pet that ghosts and delays, dissipation and Place to manage, and requires better fight mapping due to weak GcD's if you waste resources.

WhM hits harder and does the same thing with far more ease and AST does everything better. ScH has been on a steady decline since 5.3 and is close to taking the least popular heal spot from AST now.