Hi everyone,
I started playing FF14 again after a long hiatus, and after returning I decided to spice things up for myself to keep myself invested in the game, new gender, name, and jobs to experience, in this case SCH. But after playing and leveling SCH for about 2, 3 weeks, I’ve started to noticed that SCH abilities lack of impact, or umphth (umpth? How do you even spell that out), so to say, and I’m wondering if this is just me playing the job wrong or a problem with SCH at lvl 70. Let me explain more below.
WHM, my only 80 healer until I get SCH there in 9 more levels, has tons of instant heals and oGCD’s that are very useful in a pinch, things like Tetragrammaton, the Afflatus spells, Assize, Devine Benison, Temperance, etc, and even its DPS spells are more impactful, why does Dia do damage with Bio doesn’t? And there’s the fact WHM has Assize to begin with.
But then when I get to SCH, I notice that similarly impactful moves cost a crap ton of MP (GCD Shields) or cost Aetherflow/ Faerie gauge to cast, and with Aetherflow being on a 60 second oGCD or 180 oGCD with a restriction on Faerie use, it feels like the amount of time I can use these oGCD moves compared to WHM is limited. And now we can talk about SCH’s other moves, like the Shields and adjacent moves, Succor and Adloquium are good for before a pull, but spamming them during a super pull in a dungeon would drain your MP lightning quick, and using it over a oGCD in a trail/raid would just waste more time that could be used on DPS. There’s also the two tactics spells that I take issue with, Deployment doesn’t even bloody work half the time, and even when it does what are you supposed to use it for? Big AOES? It takes so long to case that half of the time you’d just be better off casting Succor, and the time you waste world likely be better off DPS’ing/casting a oGCD/letting the Faerie do the work with its auto attack or oGCD’s, Emergency works well in a pinch, but by the time the target member gets on low health and you decide to use it, they could have lost even more health or just be dead.
I could elaborate more but I feel you get the picture, so is this just me doing something wrong or is it a issue with SCH? I like the job and I’m definitely gonna get it to 80, hell im even gonna the final SCH Eureka weapon, but I just feel like somethings not quite right with either the job or myself.
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I started playing FF14 again after a long hiatus, and after returning I decided to spice things up for myself to keep myself invested in the game, new gender, name, and jobs to experience, in this case SCH. But after playing and leveling SCH for about 2, 3 weeks, I’ve started to noticed that SCH abilities lack of impact, or umphth (umpth? How do you even spell that out), so to say, and I’m wondering if this is just me playing the job wrong or a problem with SCH at lvl 70. Let me explain more below.
WHM, my only 80 healer until I get SCH there in 9 more levels, has tons of instant heals and oGCD’s that are very useful in a pinch, things like Tetragrammaton, the Afflatus spells, Assize, Devine Benison, Temperance, etc, and even its DPS spells are more impactful, why does Dia do damage with Bio doesn’t? And there’s the fact WHM has Assize to begin with.
But then when I get to SCH, I notice that similarly impactful moves cost a crap ton of MP (GCD Shields) or cost Aetherflow/ Faerie gauge to cast, and with Aetherflow being on a 60 second oGCD or 180 oGCD with a restriction on Faerie use, it feels like the amount of time I can use these oGCD moves compared to WHM is limited. And now we can talk about SCH’s other moves, like the Shields and adjacent moves, Succor and Adloquium are good for before a pull, but spamming them during a super pull in a dungeon would drain your MP lightning quick, and using it over a oGCD in a trail/raid would just waste more time that could be used on DPS. There’s also the two tactics spells that I take issue with, Deployment doesn’t even bloody work half the time, and even when it does what are you supposed to use it for? Big AOES? It takes so long to case that half of the time you’d just be better off casting Succor, and the time you waste world likely be better off DPS’ing/casting a oGCD/letting the Faerie do the work with its auto attack or oGCD’s, Emergency works well in a pinch, but by the time the target member gets on low health and you decide to use it, they could have lost even more health or just be dead.
I could elaborate more but I feel you get the picture, so is this just me doing something wrong or is it a issue with SCH? I like the job and I’m definitely gonna get it to 80, hell im even gonna the final SCH Eureka weapon, but I just feel like somethings not quite right with either the job or myself.
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