SCH lacks a single target mitigation ability

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The buff to sage holos which gives migi 10% + 300 pot shield makes sages aoe shields not as crummy as it use to be anymore a zoe physis +e prog with holos/panhi/hami which all stacks =good party shielding/migi + healing boot which seem more powerful now imo than crit/dt spread alco. E diag if crit with zoe is potential a stronger single shield than crit alco. sage win in single powerful shield. Sch wins in aoe but again with buff to holos thats barely a huge difference now. Though deep down I see the major fix was simply just make E prog be 200 potency and cut the 360% of heal restore to about 130 or something... low potency=bad heals +shields, that mess happen with 5.0 noct ast and they had to change the potency back to 200 and cut that 250% back to its 100 something. Ast kept their potencies on their intersect/+ netrual (dirunal) which can be stacked using aspect netrua benefic/helios with intersect... so its really only WHM give poor migitation with only aqua and no shields period. ast and sage has good shields and migi.

Still that line of thinking is basically “if I use every single buff SGE has it just exceeds a SCH putting in basically no effort with critlo” and then the SCH can buff critlo 40% by itself and also allows for single target healing up buffs to benefit the party as a whole and one of its healing up buffs is also mitigation

SCH still wins handily in the shielding department but at least SGE isn’t a liability in that department anymore

It's funny, ironic, and sad how no matter how much they gut SCH, it continues to be the the top performing healer regardless of how much its gameplay declines.

Whoever decided that a 10% up buff to the most broken stat in the game that the SCH has to put literally zero effort into pressing was a good idea leading to SCH being meta from 2.0 to current with only half a patch in 5.1 just shows that SCH will never not be meta no matter how bad it feels to play