I would like to see SCH get something that is like a distinction, that makes it more unique as a main. It's an excellent support job for certain jobs, but it doesn't shine as much as a main nowadays. Obviously, Abyssea is a huge influence, because SCH isn't capable of doing as many yellow !! as BLM is. Adloquium is cool I guess.

Sure, we get Tier V nukes, just like BLM, but given the current state BLM beats SCH. I have fairly top-nuking gear for both jobs and due to BLM having Blizzard V and atma that favors it, my SCH cannot top my BLM's damage. That doesn't bother me much at all, though.

What I would like to see is something that SCHs would use frequently that's unique to their job. Really, when one looks at it, it isn't much at all... Helix spells (maybe), storm spells, enmity+/- spells at 85, Adloquium at 88 (60 TP for the duration, or 120 TP with Perpetuance/135 with AF3+1 hands/150 with AF3+2 hands)... nothing that really -shines- out that would result as, "Hey, gear Scholar!" (I can tell you 95% of the time people forget I even have the job at 90). I wouldn't mind seeing something that increases the TP/tic to that. Red Mages got something to boost their Refresh, and we get something as well as WHM to boost Regen effect as well as duration. I wouldn't think getting something to boost Adloquium is unreasonable.

I can't say I've been asked to heal on Scholar often. Anytime I'm asked to heal that means I'm on White Mage. So when I'm on Scholar, it's mostly support healing and nuking. Casting storm spells / using Ebuillence makes up for our lack of MAB vs. BLM, and casting Aurorastorm helps makes up for our lack of cure potency vs. a WHM's. I rarely use the enmity spells. I'm rarely with a tank, and anytime I nuke that means I'm getting hate anyway, enmity- spell on or not.

Since we got a Stratagem that makes a spell open or close a skillchain, I could forsee them adding spells with multiple elements (maybe). That's actually an interesting idea that I like, but as others have said, it's a question of how fast the spells would be, damage, and MP cost. T2 storm spells and T2 helix would be neat as well. However, it's only 9 levels, it's a matter of seeing what SE has in mind that isn't obvious already, given the rate of spells we have gained since 75 cap... all under Addendum: Black of course, only exceptions being the white magic spells we've obtained: Adloquium, Enmity spells, and Regen III.

What we have gotten just for nukes:
Stone V - SCH79
Water V - SCH83
Aero V - SCH87

What we can likely expect just from that:
Fire V - SCH91
Blizzard V - SCH95
Thunder V - SCH99

But it's obvious to me Scholar needs more than that, something other jobs won't have. If they do introduce merits for lv99, that'll be a given that we'll get some unique stuff, it's just a matter of what that'd be and how it'd influence the playerbase to use/play the job.