Quote Originally Posted by _forgotten View Post
Crying about energy drain because one hasnt learned scholar is in poor taste.
Energy Drain doesn't add any class complexity it's just a dump skill that doesn't force you to overheal or god forbid simply pressing the AF button while still having stacks. It always baffles me to see how many Scholars believe this button that punishes their main oGCD healing toolkit somehow makes the class more complex when in reality is just causes anti synergy. Which Scholar is plagued by.

Shadowflare used to give SCH complexity, you couldn't have it and Sacred Soil active at the same time so you needed to know when to use which. Since you'd be locked out of the other for 15s. This trade-off was especially true once SS got a regen effect. but by then Shadowflare was gone. Now neither SMN nor SCH have it. Miasma & Miasma 2 were removed from SCH persumably due to the debuff limit causing SMN grievances but now SMN doesn't have any DoT. And while it's true that reaching the limit with a party full of Summoners probably was easy, having a DoT orientated healer doesn't even come close since you always only have 2 at most, not 5. Despite this SCH did not receive Bio III or Miasma I, II or III this expansion. Because managing 2 dots is apparently too big brain for healers. Actual complexity is forbidden on healers according to the devs. ED exists because it isn't complex.