As stated in many previous threads Scholar has a few abilities that have no use what-so-ever in abby.
The first being: Modus Veritas, This ability used to be the scholars "secret weapon" so-to-speak. It allowed them to deal major DOT damage with merits. Now 99% of monsters are immune to this ability in abby. This renders any merits wasted and the ability itself useless.
Suggested Fix: Remove the immunity to this ability from monsters in abby.
Second: Libra, This ability seemed useful at first but overtime it turned out to be absolutely useless. The most use any player could possibly get out of this ability is to know how much hate they have so they know not to cast and any player with common sense knows when not to cast in a party anyways.
Suggested Fix: Alter this ability so that it also allows the user to see the foe's current HP, MP, Elemental weakness(if any), and current TP.
Three: Stormsurge, Useless in comparison to the whm counterpart spells that can use used on demand and do not require accession to cast thus rendering the job trait a waste of merits for anyone who has put them in before this update was put in.
Suggested fix: Alter the ability which puts them at least just under par with the whm counterpart instead of trailing behind by about 20 points worth.
Spells: Embrava and Kaustra, Extremely powerful, almost over powered, the biggest issue with this however is they are only useful when under sch two hour effect, thus they are useful for about 2-3mins and then are absolutely useless for two hours.
Suggested Fix: They need to be accessible outside of two hour ability and nerfed.
Scholar used to be able to heal and nuke just under par or on par with their blm and whm counterparts, ever since the new tier spells and abilities have been introduced, they pale in comparison to the two now. Scholar is no longer seen as a alternative nuker or healer anymore.
Suggested Fix: Give Scholar access to Cure V at the very least along with a Stratagem that allows them to enhance the use of their next status debuff removing spells(under light arts) and add a Stratagem that allows them to lower enmity against them(under dark arts) These Stratagems would be of course weaker versions then their whm and blm counter parts but non-the-less these modifications would allow sch to be seen as a useful alternative to whm or blm again.