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    Enla's Avatar
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    Sep 2015
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    Gridania
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    Crushing Fatigue
    World
    Balmung
    Main Class
    Scholar Lv 70
    Quote Originally Posted by Ilenya View Post
    "Most of scholar's capabilities weren't significantly changed. However, its shield-based playstyle has been shifted to include more direct healing, and makes it easier for scholar to focus more on a heal-oriented playstyle. Instead of focusing on dealing damage while relying on the other healer to provide healing, both healers will be able support each other in the healing role. Additionally, Embrace can no longer be used repetitively, as we’d like to move away from using macros to repeatedly cast Embrace."

    This was a direct quote in the lead-up to Shadowbringers about how they were changing SCH. It's sitting here implying that SCH at the time weren't healing, even though SCH were through oGCD skills all the time. I stand by what I said about them not being aware of how we play the jobs, because this sure didn't sit well with me as an outlook on healers.
    Hell you need only look at the bulk of the healer changes since ARR to tell that there's likely no one on the balance team with any real pull that actually mains the jobs. Adding a hybrid healer like AST back in HW is a mistake they're still paying for on the balance front. And while the job isn't bad, it's actually really come into it's own, I can guarantee it was suggested by someone who had no idea just how precarious healer balance can be in games like this. At best I can suggest that maybe someone on the balance team might main and/or secondary job WHM because of the near perfect buffs they got with SHB. However one need only look at what happened with SCH and AST (it's in a good spot now but MAN was it the red headed step child at expansion launch... just like 4.0 SCH) this time around - especially SCH to see that that's about as far as it goes. SE really, honestly, needs to hire some of the best healers from each role and bring them in for consultations. Because most of the healer issues have been addressed and constructively given potential solutions for within the community from people who actually know how to play the classes. SE just never, sadly, listens.

    Piety is another great example. They give us so much of it in our sets, and yet even just last night I was browsing the BiS for SCH and the speed-run BiS for Piety caps out at 340 Piety. Even just in experimenting last night I got myself down to 600+ Piety and had no problems healing through a messy Copied Factory as SCH. Piety is an absolute joke right now for the class and a lot of it comes down to SE's fundamental misunderstanding of how it plays and them throwing oGCD heals at us to fix non-existent problems.

    As for MP I don't see it going away. Unlike the TP change there's really no benefit currently to getting rid of it.
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    Last edited by Enla; 11-10-2020 at 06:39 AM.