Quote Originally Posted by Parrow89 View Post
I was looking over the spell lists again between WHM and SCH and one question comes to mind. "Why hasn't Scholar's regen progression continued?"
This is something that really didn't make sense to me either. Sure, you could argue that White Mage should have all the tiers too or something, but a big part of the "Scholar" concept is changing battlefield conditions, which should include DoT.

Bigger reliance on Regen spells would really help, especially since Scholar should be the "X over time" king.

Reading what everyone said here, I would prefer a potent healing helix over a job ability that makes a cure into a helix, unless of course, the job ability is a strat. But a helix spell would be better in the first place. It could even be more potent then what SpankWustler is suggesting depending on the recast timer. If the spell is a larger cure but always affected by weather, and has a fairly long recast, like 20-40 seconds, it could still work. Of course, a smaller cure would have to have a shorter recast, correspondingly.

On a somewhat unrelated note, inspired by this discussion, perhaps Scholar should get a job trait or spell that makes other jobs in the party affect it. For example, a Red Mage in the same party as a Scholar would make it so the Scholar could boost Fast Cast by 5% (or maybe Magic Accuracy) for everyone in the party. Or a Black Mage could do something with either Magic Attack or magical damage. Then again, this concept might not work well, plus it somewhat feels like Corsair's rolls getting a bonus depending on party members.