G-give it Back T---T; !! (Scholar Edition)

[ForsakenRoe]

Thinking about the whole 'was SB SCH stronger/weaker than now', I completely overlooked something: Fey Illumination (the magic resist thing) is 5% now, but was a whopping 20% previously



So vs magic, SCH actually got weaker in terms of mitigations. Expedient doesn't patch the hole left by the removal of this insane 20% mitigation tool. Against Physical, however, SCH got stronger, because this wouldn't affect Physical.

Which means that, SE could have made 'swap fairy' into an OGCD, and changed the haste buff of Selene to a movespeed buff (the sprint part of Expedient) and we'd have the same as what we have now in terms of 'utilities available to the player', but they'd be accessed via a much more thematic method (as compared to 'hit 2min CD'). Requiring some foresight to swap fairy in advance sounds like a very 'battlefield tactician' thing, but it removes opportunity for bad players to 'play reactively' (implying that any healer job plays 'reactively') and that's not good. SE should just let the people who want more planning in their playstyle have it, and for the people who cannot 'plan ahead' whether by choice or because they're newer, idk remove the CD on Indom so they can just smash it whenever I guess

Worked for Aravell.

I'll wait with baited breath for you to make a snarky comment to her for doing so.

I don't remember them having a pattern of saying 'I'm out' and then immediately being 'back in' the very next day, but sure, if they make a habit of it then I'll try to remember to say 'see you tomorrow' to them too

[ty_taurus]

Thinking about the whole 'was SB SCH stronger/weaker than now', I completely overlooked something: Fey Illumination (the magic resist thing) is 5% now, but was a whopping 20% previously

I'm not actually sure if that's true. The tooltip reads "increases magic defense" and not "reduces magic damage taken." I could be wrong because I didn't fact check this, but the wording leads me to believe Covenant used to increase the player's magic defense stat, and if that's true, I have no idea what that actually equates to in terms of how much damage is actually mitigated.

[ForsakenRoe]

I'm not actually sure if that's true. The tooltip reads "increases magic defense" and not "reduces magic damage taken." I could be wrong because I didn't fact check this, but the wording leads me to believe Covenant used to increase the player's magic defense stat, and if that's true, I have no idea what that actually equates to in terms of how much damage is actually mitigated.

Oh my brain didn't even parse it like that, yeh in that case it'd have worked like old Foresight for WAR, which was widely regarded to be 'quite shit compared to Rampart'. And it'd have had different effectiveness based on roles, thanks to differing magic resistance levels on gear. No wonder it got changed then. This changes things, and EW SCH would definitely be more 'mitigative' in that case, my mistake