[Job Adjustmentｓ Manifesto] RDM

[Economizer]

Do you use Divine seal every 10 minutes? If so, do you use it for cures or for status effects?

Honestly, since Divine Seal is on a ten minute timer, I avoid using it outside of Campaign Battle Accession cures. Actually, this statement isn't exactly true, since I use Devotion as often as possible. Divine Seal isn't exactly something reliable to depend on.

Using stratagems for rapture isn't the best way to main heal. If you're spam healing a single tank chances are your stratagems aren't going to last long enough. If you are healing an entire party with accession, you're going to run out of mp (or if you stack penury you'll run out of charges). Dark Arts stratagems are generally a lot more useful than light arts strats. Light arts strats are nice, but they aren't game-breaking.

They certainly aren't game breaking, and they aren't something you should be relying on all the time, but they do give Scholar the edge over other non-WHM healers. I'm not trying to say otherwise.

I definitely notice that when Black Mages talk about Scholars, they definitely mention stratagems often, notably the ones you can't just sub for. I don't hear the discussion about Light Arts strats as often. Perhaps this is due to the nature of the way the player base sometimes utilizes nukes, as some players heavily rely on spike damage tier V spells over all else, whereas healers often are expected to constantly spam heals.

In my opinion, constantly having to spam heals often comes down from poor damage mitigation, non-tank jobs taking hate, and other factors that usually indicate a poor group makeup that the devs didn't necessarily design healing jobs around (opinions are subject to change with more information, and are not valid in the state of Maryland). But much of the healing in this game these days seems to spamming heals, which certainly favors a play-style that can't rely occasional on job ability boosts.

Again, perhaps there are issues with stuff like not giving certain jobs certain spells or abilities, but balance is a hard job, especially when dealing with balancing multiple classes performing multiple roles vs. so called specialist classes. Further, how much of this is Abyssea rewarding those specialists and how much of this is actual game issues?

Last, as a few questions, how satisfied are you with Scholar in relation to Black Mage? To Red Mage? And to Red Mages, how satisfied are you in relation to these two classes? If Scholars are happy with their position compared to Black Mage, what lessons about balance can we learn from that? And if they aren't, what would make them happy? And so on, with other classes?