Quote Originally Posted by Lebeau View Post
Much to my dismay, I wish all of the Scholar shields stacked the way WHM HoTs do :-(
while I can understand the pain of 2 sch not stacking with eachother... it's painly obiovus what shield stacking will make of most fight... a critted succor is already enough to turn big unavoidable aoe into medium/lesser aoe... take 2 critted equipped SCH with stacking shield and most aoe burst will turn into "OHH what was that shiny animation the boss just did for?"

it will even come to make some boss mechanics trivial (think at ifrit hm failed nails or garuda hm phase 1 to 2 transation with few or no rock remaining... tank and shielded high vitality mdps can already survive those... get double critted shield on every party member and u can ignore those mechanics and just burn down the boss without thinking...) ... even more embarassing... just have the 2 high crit sch fire a succor every 20 sec... u can totally forget about the party health and only focus on tank aside for that one cast every 20 sec -_-' no rush to get people topped... no dps dead due to one wron step into an aoe... no tank dead because healer was forced to turn to party heal...

with those shield as they are stacking will make them too much OP... in order for them to stack they should be reworked with the healing potency increased by 50% and the shield potency reduced to 50% of the healed amount (100% healed amount for critted adloquim) but that will totally transform the sch into a different thing... no more a preentive healer but just an healer with little shield added that aren't even enough to cover for a few dot ticks...