I find BRD fairly intuitive. All you need to do is to keep your songs up, adjust your play according to the song, make sure to keep your DOT applied, GCD heavy shot as soon as it's off cooldown, easy. Everything else is just building on this simple routine.
Dunno about end game raids as much, but in PVP at least Astrologian is currently pretty big in the meta for healer. Scholar and Sage haven't fared quite as well as they had previously with some of the recent changes.
In Party Finder, WAR/GNB combos still seem pretty common. WAR is in more or less the same place it was before regarding sustain, immortal in casual content and getting an extra invuln in hard content due to Holmgang's shorter cooldown making it the easy pick, at least for prog.
1 word: Downtime.
Similar effects rarely stack and usually tend to overwrite each other. Can't have it all.
I felt the same way when I found out Sage shields and Scholar shields don't stack
This one still makes me mad because the group I run raids with always goes with our sage over my scholar and has me switch to DPS.
I want to get more chances to heal extremes.if only the same happened to DPS jobs' buff skills, it would kill the 2 minute meta so fast
3 PCTs and a DNC is the best I can see happening. This is reliant on hypermititaging (I see a crit spreadlo, Expedience, Sacred Soil, Dark Missionary, Wheel of Fortune or whatever the AST mit is called, Passage of Arms, Shield Samba, and Improvisiation being used here.) and taking away the Physranged mit probably makes it impossible.
I'm more curious if having 4 PCT will just be so much damage you'll be able to push phases.
It's not that bad. With a premade party you can get that pretty quickly, at least compared to trying to do it through the inbuilt matching system.
The way it overwrites is rather annoying too. It always takes the most recently cast shield.
3 PCT is probably too much. The main issue is more with the damage than the mitigation tbh. Raid buffs of the same type don't stack and once you get into 3 PCT comps, you're probably hurting your damage overall since the additional damage from another PCT probably isn't as good as taking a job that does less damage directly but gives a raid buff that means your overtuned casters can do more damage.
I have no friends though and if I caved and did it with randoms, they'd just rush through everything instead of checking rooms for chests. I'm in a discord that organizes deep dungeon runs, but they are more in it for clears than grip farming.
Congrats, I'm working on finishing up BLM and hating myself. I still need to level up DNC, GNB, PLD, and DRK after for combat jobs. I've not even started on DoH/DoL because I can't be bothered to care about crafting.
